A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim


Scientific American
A beautifully illustrated, well-argued volume.


American Mathematical Society
A beautiful, magnificent sequel to his classic, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

FROM OUR EDITORS

The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether on the printed page or the computer screen. The Whole Earth Review called Envisioning Information a "passionate, elegant revelation."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Edward Tufte's new book, Envisioning Information, is a stunning display of the classics of information design, combined with close analysis of design strategies that produce excellence in information displays. Six-color printing is used throughout, and, for the chapter on color and information, twelve-color printing. Photography, color reproduction techniques, typography, paper, printing, and binding, are all of the highest quality.

Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific visualizations, diagrams, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, computer screens, timetables, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book, with more than 400 illustrations, provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, and uses extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information display. Envisioning Information deals with all types of information displays, covering a far broader scope of material than Tufte's classic book on statistical graphics, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

FROM THE CRITICS

Kevin Kelly

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 colors) 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. -- Whole Earth Review

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. — Rudolf Arnheim

An incredibly beautiful, true, refined and luscious book. — Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi

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