Envisioning Information

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (Author).This ebook celebrates escapes from the flatlands of each paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of excessive-dimensional advanced data. Probably the most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Data exhibits maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, pc interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo pictures, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of colour, a pop-up, and plenty of different great shows of information. The ebook gives practical advice about the way to explain complicated materials by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of knowledge displays. Matters embody escaping flatland, color and data, 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-colour printing throughout. Highest quality design and production.


To me, this is Tufte's best guide, though they are all really good. Although its visually attractive, its not a coffee table book to simply flip through. You have to be willing to spend time with it, and if you do the rewards are tremendous. Tufte presents a collection of some the most effective examples of knowledge design ever invented, and some of the worst examples. After which he goes into the underlying principles that make the good ones sing out. This guide might be really helpful to any net web page designer, UI designers, statisticians, cartographers, scientists, or anyone involved with presenting dense info in a clear way. There's a chapter on presenting multiple dimensional knowledge on a flat, 2D paper that every one by itself is definitely worth the worth of the book. Then there's the chapter on "Small Multiples" which presents wonderful examples of tips on how to show patterns and changes.

However then there's the chapter on layering of information, so the important thing pieces of data seem first, and the much less related ones reveal themselves later. And on and on and on. Its just a great book. To add to it, Tufte is obsessed with quality like nobody else I can think of within the book business. Its printed on one hundred% rag paper utilizing real lead sort as a result of he thinks that each one different strategies are inferior. Which suggests the e book is expensive to make, but its of heirloom quality.

Envisioning Information is Tufte's finest work. It's a catalog of world class data design examples, culled by the author. He has collected examples from sources as numerous as Gallileo's observations of Saturn, a 3D map of a Japanese shrine, a visible "proof" of Pythagoras' theorem, shade research by the artist Joseph Albers, and a New York train schedule. This is not a "find out how to" e book, but moderately a group of inspiring examples showing any could be information designer the concepts behind the execution of these superb examples.The ideas are painstakingly argued and illustrated. Tufte is obsessed with quality - the ebook is printed on a hundred% rag paper utilizing old fashioned lead sort because he believes this yields the best high quality results. One of the best books I have ever learn in terms of visible design!

 Envisioning Information 

 Edward R. Tufte (Author)

 126 pages

Graphics Pr (May 1990)

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