Envisioning InformationThis book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs, layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17 awards for design and content. 400 illustrations with exquisite 6- to 12-color printing throughout. Highest quality design and production. |
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User Review - haloedrain - LibraryThingThis is a much better book than the first one, there's a lot more substance and less polemic. However, it's not very well written and his main points get lost in the long series of examples, so it takes some work to get that substance out of it. Read full review
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User Review - Christina_E_Mitchell - LibraryThingI began reading Tuft's graphic information series in an attempt to thwart and destroy the boring academic PowerPoint. For those not aware, academic and/or scholarly PowerPoints, particularly those ... Read full review
Contents
ESCAPING FLATLAND I | 12 |
MicroMACRO READINGS | 37 |
LAYERING AND SEPARATION | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Envisioning Information |
| Author | Edward R. Tufte |
| Contributor | Graphics Press |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Graphics Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 May 2008 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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