Information Design

Information Anxiety 2

Richard Saul Wurman

A decade after the publication of what has become a cult guidebook to understanding, Richard Saul Wurman, in this expanded and updated volume, gives clarity to confusion with new maps for navigating through a stream of bytes which leave us inundated with data but starved for the tools and patterns that give them meaning.

In reality there has not been an information explosion, but rather an explosion of non-information, or stuff that simply doesn't inform.

The world will produce a billion billion bytes of unique informatio this year alone. Richard Saul Wurman shows us that all this data does not give us wisdom unless it tells a story, and he is a master at showing us how to do just that.

In this long-awaited, updated release of his groundbreaking classic, the impresario of the world's most compelling technology, entertainment, and design conference, gives us a must have road map to fostering understanding in this age of information anxiety.

— Ray Kurzweil • Kurzweil Technologies Inc.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte

Pictures of numbers – the classic book on statistical charts, graphs, and tables. 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical charts graphics, and tables with a detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, quick, effective analysis.

Original, beautifully presented, smart and learned, this book is a work of art. The art here is cognitive art, the graphic display of relations and empirical data, now an indispensable tool of science and engineering.

— Scientific American

This beautifully typeset, illustrated, and printed large-format volume is an accurate, funny, and downright rude short course in the history and practice of statistical graphics. A touchstone of style.

— PC Magazine

Envisioning Information

Edward Tufte

Pictures of nouns – maps of data and evidence. Design strategies for high-dimensional data and increasing information depth on paper and computer. This wonderful book covers design methods such as: micro/macro readings; layering, separation, and hierarchy; small multiples; colour and information; narratives of space and time; typography; graphic design.

Buy this book. Keep it with the few others you have that you'll pass on to the next generation. It is a passionate, elegant revelation of how to render the three dimensions of experience into the two dimensions of paper or screen.

As in his previous classic, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte is promoting a new standard of visual literacy.

This latest book (immaculately printed in 23 colours) is a lyrical primer of design strategies for reading and creating messages in 'flatland.' No other book has been so highly recommended to us by so many varieties of professional – architects, teachers, technicians, hackers, and artists.

— Kevin Kelly • Whole Earth Review

Visual Explanations

Edward Tufte

Pictures of verbs – depicting data and evidence relevant to cause and effect. This book is about computer interface design; graphics for decision making; how to give presentations; scientific visualization, narrative, diagrams, and animation.

Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and web sites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentatons, and computer screens.

Full of compelling and amusing examples – drawings of the 1500s to computer animations and computer interface design… The printing is lavish and beautiful and the book is alive with instructive visual fun and flaps that fold back…

— The New York Times

If you think you might like Visual Explanations – perhaps you have heard that it is the third in a series of beautifully produced books about the graphical display of data – then you should buy it.

Few books have been as widely acclaimed by so many readers working in as many fields as these have.

— Washington Post