My CV inspiration

As you will recognize quickly, my own CV depicted below was clearly inspired by this draft. It's lighter and its features are better organized than mine. But in my opinion, it shows too much text (even if some of it is a dummy text) instead of using icons to explain skills. What i like is its corporate design, the graphic appears very homogeneous. 
Such kind of CV is suitable for applications in the creative sector. One advantage of using graphics surely is they appear very credibly in general. Do you agree with this point, or isn't it valid for a CV, in which you have to sell yourself? Or is it even harder to estimate and depict your skills in a graphic?  

Graphic source: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Resume-CV-Cover-Letter-Set-01-338840984

Life of Brian, pardon, Ludwig

This information graphic is a homage to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. And at least as long as his famous Seagram Building, so i had to split it in two parts. It informs about his life and his contribution to a new approach of architecture, the New Objectivity. It was introduced in the 20's in Germany. As a symbolic change, artists seeked clear forms after the playful period of Jugendstil, dated before the First World War. 

So it is self-evident the infographic gathers the values of simplicity. Furthermore, it reminds of an American 50's adverisement - the main period of van der Rohe's producing.  This manner of designing graphic seems to be quite popular in the last years, so it can't described as innovative.

It uses big shapes, easy to identify, such as van der Rohe taking his famous position, smoking a cigar. The background is held very clearly and lightly. There only a few colours used. Similarly, information is well organized in a time-line using icons to illustrate the personality’s life-stations. Important facts are emphasized bold, and the different colors of typography raise the readability. The graphic does without much decoration. However, it exhibits a few redundancy. Thus some of the depictions of the buildings he created are shown twice. The content quite unidimensional, only dealing with his architectural producing. So it does not need a high effort to understand the graphic, but surely it demands some interest for the topic. 

Graphic source: http://www.archdaily.com/220679/infographic-celebrating-mies-van-der-rohe/