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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... Visual Culture 3 1000 Words or One Simple Picture? 3 5 5 5 5 Pics or it didn't happen Key Learning Objectives Chapter Overview How Visuals Work Photographic Truth? FOCUS: A Historical Perspective on Visual Culture Growing Importance of ...
... Visual Culture 3 1000 Words or One Simple Picture? 3 5 5 5 5 Pics or it didn't happen Key Learning Objectives Chapter Overview How Visuals Work Photographic Truth? FOCUS: A Historical Perspective on Visual Culture Growing Importance of ...
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... visual culture is visible tout court and prima facie. (High visualism in visual-culture studies is the analog of high formalism in art criticism, even the direct heir of high formalism.) In this and the next (and final) chapter of this ...
... visual culture is visible tout court and prima facie. (High visualism in visual-culture studies is the analog of high formalism in art criticism, even the direct heir of high formalism.) In this and the next (and final) chapter of this ...
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... visual memory for previously attended objects in natural scenes . Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance , 28 , 113-136 . Honda , H. ( 1991 ) . The time courses of visual mislocali- zation and of ...
... visual memory for previously attended objects in natural scenes . Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance , 28 , 113-136 . Honda , H. ( 1991 ) . The time courses of visual mislocali- zation and of ...
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