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Abstract: Development of computer technologies and easy access to the Internet promote creation of the new environment of education, and consequently application of innovative technologies of information transfer. It is not just about the ways of submission of educational information and visualization of knowledge, it is a many-sided problem of education. Technologies are improved, as a result perception of information by a pupil changes, which is connected with a variety of forms and scope of the information. A modern student isn't ready to visual understanding and comprehension of such format of information, therefore, it is necessary to visualize educational information. Visualization of information is carried out for the purpose of development of figurative and conceptual thinking, which includes perception, analysis, comparison, interpretation, estimation, transformation, creation of a new image, and consists in judgment of virtual images before manifestation of the thinking, but not illustrations to thoughts. Infographics is an auxiliary visual support, visual structuring of information in educational process combining verbal and non-verbal text. The advabtages of the use of infographics are analyzed on the basis of the academic subject "Information Support of Associative and Syncretic Technologies of Creativity Development". In this subjects students solve educational and creative problems aimed at visualization of components of creative search, namely, creation of images in poetic miniatures with application of infographics. Application of infographics is also possible when developing creative infographic projects, the requirements of which correspond to the reasoned justification of the visualization tools defined in contents of the project, presentation and the explanation of the received results. Infographics is focused on formation, development of visual thinking, success of professional activity and creative approach to the solution of problem situations.