Information Graphics --multilingual

Let's get the obvious out of the way: The 480 page book is beautiful and packed with dozens of very good info graphics. Only 10% are worthy of return visits, and that critique is meant for the field itself. It's very difficult to make a convincing, data-rich infographic and this book makes that problem painfully obvious. The problem with so many of the infographics is their inability to convey a meaningful concept within a few seconds. This problem is compounded by vague rules of interpretation where you spend considerable time mentally mapping the relationships. For some people this may be fun, but infographics need more discipline as Tufte preaches, if we are to use them purposefully. The simpler the rules are, the faster you can start playing with it to draw your own conclusions about the data. Many of the infographics appear to be more focused on aesthetic treatments than showing information convincingly. The book misses an opportunity to present data-similar infographics but with different concepts, sequentially. This would allow readers to see how data can be manipulated rhetorically. More often than not, the data we want to show has some kind of skew that needs attention.

This book is an incredible value. Gorgeous artwork, riveting info, easy to pick up and put down any time you need, ultra comprehensive and just an all around rad book. Excellent design inspiration. Designers, data geeks and art appreciators alike will enjoy this book. Side note: this books is MASSIVE. Nothing prepared me for that...so consider yourself warned.

As a scientist, a person who makes a living interpreting graphs and charts for clients, I sometimes forget that graphs and charts and timelines really do make the interpretation of large numbers of words and numbers a snap. This book covers the entire spectrum of where graphics do, or have done, the most good in making people aware of what they might miss if they simply read the words and number. First, the book is a work of art. Its size, format, and multi-page-size format put it up there with the best of the coffee table art books. But what astounds me the most is that while reading Informational Graphics I continuously learn something new in a realm of art or science that I didn't know before cracking the page and viewing the graphic. Informational Graphics is the best book that I've purchased in a few years.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. Im a graphic designer and this book was essential for the class I took last semester. It was only $40 dollars at the time, but it was worth it. Soon everyone in my class bought this book and everyone loved the colors, and different infographics that were in the book. They even show old infographics as well. :)

It's really hard to judge a book by it's cover without being able to see the insides. My successes of buying books is a hit or miss in Amazon. For the price of this book, I should have went to a brick & mortar to see the contents. This is probably the heaviest book I've ever owned. It's big and heavy with the hard cover. I was disappointed but I'm not going to give this book a bad rating. I was hoping for more "commercial" work (real world / agency work / business graphics). But this book is hard core conceptual and alot of visual & information design. It's divided into sections from history and application, nicely color coded. All I wanted was a display of infographics so that I can get my creative juices going. The graphics in this book reminds me of art/design school, not exactly practical. PROS: - Nice cover, gives it the wow factor if you want to display it on your desk. You can tell it's an expensive book. - Smartly organized and color coded sections - Includes history + application - strong in visual & information design CONS: - Few "commercial" or agency work (ie real world or business graphics) - Heavy and not something you would carry around in your backpack to go to work or school - The graphics reminds me of design school (which means it's limited in practical use)

It's quite incredible this book can be purchased for this price here (and be delivered for free with Prime). It's a super high quality object, well designed, well printed and sporting such a wealth of knowledge and examples to make one spend months going through it. I highly recommend having this in our library if you're a designer of almost any sort, or have to work with data visualization regularly.

Did not expect the book to be this big when I ordered, but that's not a bad thing. Very impressed with as a whole. Large size hardcover book with 480 pgs. Wealth of visual material inside. Would have expected to pay closer to 70/80 $ or more for this book but a real bargain at right around $40. Very nice addition to home library.

This book. THIS book, is one of the most beautiful Design books I have ever owned. I'm an Art History lover, and a Graphic Designer, so giving some history, and details into these infographics is very much appreciated. It's also gigantic. Almost too large, but that's never a problem for a design book collector. The only review I would give for criticism would be some of the pages were not trimmed with the registration lines upon shipment. 3-4 pages still have the registration marks and the extra bleed area. It's actually pretty strange, because the rest of the book is very clean cut. But these pages were tucked in the rest of the book. I'm just glad it didn't mess up any other part of it. I may get the guts to trim the rest off one day. For now, it's too pretty to mess with.