Books about Designing and Visualizing Information

Books about Designing and Visualizing Information

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Envisioning Information

by Edward R. Tufte

This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high- dimensional complex data.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.

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Favourite Quote

"Clutter and confusion are failures of

design, not attributes of information.”

Cartographies of Time

By Daniel Rosenberg,

Anthony Grafton

This book is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals.Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, the book provides a set of tools for understanding the evolution and the significance of graphic representations of time both in history and in contemporary culture.


Favourite Quote

"The computer screen is not very good at

displaying a big historical timeline."

Visual Explanations

by Edward R. Tufte

This book is a navigational guide through this turbulent sea of information. The book is an essential reference for anyone involved in graphic, Web, or multimedia design, as well as for educators and lecturers who use graphics in presentations or classes.


Favourite Quote

“Graphical excellence is that which gives

to the viewer the greatest number of ideas

in the shortest time with the least ink in

the smallest space.”

Dear Data

By Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie

Posavec

The book reproduces the full year's set of cards of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.


Favourite Quote

"We can use data to become more

humane and to connect with ourselves

and others at a deeper level.”

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Information Design

by Robert Jacobson

The book offers visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. It gives various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasive and persuasive field.


Favourite Quote

"The fact that information design is so

pervasive reminds us to be deliberate and

careful in the way we apply the power

inherent to this process."

Designing Information

by Joel Katz

This book shows designers in all fields - from user-interface design to architecture and engineering - how to design complex data and information for meaning, relevance, and clarity.


Favourite Quote

"The relationships among words, images

and numbers are complex and each can

support and enhance, or discredit and

contradict the other."

Visual Function

by Paul Mijksenaar

The book presents and discusses a variety of graphics used in transmitting information, analyzing signs, graphs, and charts. This book examines airplane safety cards, street maps, road signs, instruction booklets, logos, subway guides, advertisements, cookbooks, computer diagrams, and car manuals, all as a means of explaining how information can be conveyed without words.


Favourite Quote

“As a designer, you have to think in time

and see things in sequence. You have to

see information as a narrative form."

The Wayfinding Handbook

by David Gibson

This is a complete guide to the discipline, from planning and design to practical considerations, such as setting up teams and managing projects.Using real-life examples, it explains way type, color, mapmaking, dimensional forms, material selection, and new media are used to create effective wayfinding systems.


Favourite Quote

"The heart of a civilization throbs

wherever people come together to

play,work,study,shop,perform,worship or

just interact."

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