| |  | Author: Edward R. Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Press
Category: Book
List Price: $48.00
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,160
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th Printing
Pages: 126
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0961392118
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23
EAN: 9780961392116
Publication Date: May 1990
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 Every Web designer should read this book February 3, 1998
This is the third of Edward Tufte's brilliant trilogy on how information should be displayed. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers. Envisioning Information is about picturing nouns. Visual Explanations is about picturing verbs. All three are beautiful artefacts in their own right, encapsulating the author's ideas in the actual production of the book. Each is crammed with examples of good and bad practice over the past centuries.
 DISAPPOINTING December 21, 1997
18 out of 33 found this review helpful
The book is expensive,thin, and misses the point. The illustrations for the book are never labelled, so you have no idea where the text refers to the illos! How can a book by a "designer" be that bad?! Some of the examples of good or innovative design is excellent but it says more about the "other" designers and not this book's author. Some of the obscure older examples of information design is rather good but if you want a good book on design, this is not it. Perhaps it will be a source of inspiration... The book is a confusing and artsy fartsy sort of a book typical of the mindset of artists and designers. They're so wrapped up in their personal aesthetics. It's not practical and it does not help to illuminate the history and development or practice of good design when conveying information. The idea that good design in the case of the space shuttle explosion could of been prevented thru good information design is rather silly. The reason why the space shuttle disaster was not prevented has as much to do with management issues (ie not listening to engineers that issue warnings in memos) and hubris of the NASA agency and confidence as well as political pressures from Congress that wished to ax the agency's funding led to the disaster and NOT the fact some graph wasn't well prepared. If you want good design, just go buy an issue of ID or other expensive design magazine or journal or better yet, go to a university library. I don't understand why other reviewers here gush over Tufte. The production values for this book are excellent. If you are interested in this book, please review it first. You may be disappointed and you may end up loving it.
Simply THE bible for every designer in the information age!! June 5, 1997
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ed Tufte has created an essential resource for every software designer and developer that imparts the RELIGION of good design, while avoiding the typical lists of "do's" and "don'ts" that are so pervasive in design texts. Tufte offers incredible examples of his design concepts and the publication itself is a tangible example of extraordinary design
FASCINATING!!!! January 21, 1997
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
one of my favourite books ever. It's visually beautiful and inspiring. A must for any graphic designer!!
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