Envisioning InformationZusammenfassung: This 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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Page 26
... Robert Venturi , Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ( New York , 2nd edition , 1977 ) , ch . 5. Venturi in turn cites Wylie Sypher , Four Stages of Renaissance Style ( Garden City , New York , 1955 ) . For statistical graphics ...
... Robert Venturi , Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ( New York , 2nd edition , 1977 ) , ch . 5. Venturi in turn cites Wylie Sypher , Four Stages of Renaissance Style ( Garden City , New York , 1955 ) . For statistical graphics ...
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... Robert Venturi , Denise Scott Brown , and Steven Izenour , Learning from Las Vegas ( Cambridge , 1977 ) , p . 163 . decoration on a conventional shed the rather cynical and expensive distortion of program and structure to promote a duck ...
... Robert Venturi , Denise Scott Brown , and Steven Izenour , Learning from Las Vegas ( Cambridge , 1977 ) , p . 163 . decoration on a conventional shed the rather cynical and expensive distortion of program and structure to promote a duck ...
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... Robert Venturi opens his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture with a broad extension of Albers ' point : I like complexity and contradiction in architecture . . . . I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on ...
... Robert Venturi opens his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture with a broad extension of Albers ' point : I like complexity and contradiction in architecture . . . . I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on ...
Contents
ESCAPING FLATLAND | 12 |
MICROMACRO READINGS | 37 |
LAYERING AND SEPARATION | 53 |
Copyright | |
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ACT PAR THROM angle architecture areas AUTO BLOOD CT BLOOD GAS MONT chart chartjunk clutter color complexity contour dance notation density detail diagram dimensions drawings edition Eduard Imhof Edward encoding flatland FORWARD END ftelle Galileo Galileo Galilei Gotti graphical timetable grid Haven Imhof's information design INHAL BLOOD GAS INHAL RESPIRATOR Interaction Jan Tschichold John John Gotti Josef Albers Jupiter LAB AUTO BLOOD LAB CHEM-8 LAB DIFF layers London ment micro/macro designs numbers paffo paper Paris Paul Paul Klee PHAR IV SOLUTIONS PHARMACY PHARMACY PHARMACY photographs Piet Mondrian PROC FEE railroad reading Redrawn River Robert Venturi ROOM ICU Roy Lichtenstein RTN CULT Ruari McLean satellites schedule sequence small multiple SOLUTIONS IV SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS PHARMACY space spots square statistical Street sunspots surface telescope three-space Tokyo trains Tukey typography variables variation Vietnam Veterans Memorial viewers visual X-RAY CHEST-BED York Ꮎ Ꮎ Ꮎ