Information Graphics

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1. thaumaturgyMay 2026
   You may also like Information Graphics: https://www.taschen.com/en/books/graphic-design/44653/inform...
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2. tomek_zemlaMar 2015
   Here are some resources I found useful (on top of Tufte):

   1. Work of Alberto Cairo: http://www.thefunctionalart.com. 2. Searching Pintrest for UI/UX, dashboard, information design related keywords. 3. Work of Ben Fry and Fathom: http://fathom.info. 4. Work of Georgia Lupi and Accurat: http://giorgialupi.net and http://www.accurat.it. 5. Infosthetics Blog: http://infosthetics.com. 6. Work of Gregor Aisch from New York Times: http://driven-by-data.net 7. Information Graphics book from Taschen: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/design/all/04984/f...

   The last one is a huge brick with many interesting and/or beautiful examples and it also exists as iBook for about $10!

   The above resources contain another set of links to great many sources of inspiration...

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3. kyroAug 2013
   Bought Few's book. Information design is something I'm really interested in, yet I haven't found too many resources on it, other than Tufte's books (obviously) and a couple others. One of my favorites is Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert Harris [1]. It offers little discussion, but is an excellent catalog of all of the various ways you can represent data.

   For more exploratory information design, check out the stuff by Nicholas Felton. He's a big quantified-self guy who every year publishes a really nicely designed annual report of his life [2]. I emailed him once asking for more sources on info design and he linked me to the site of a course he taught that contained some great resources [3].

   [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195135326/

   [2] http://feltron.com/

   [3] http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/classes/spring11/informatio...

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4. wdewindApr 2010
   Tufte is great, but he's extremely heavy and a bit dated. He is about 80% brilliant 20% completely missing the point. It's very strange.

   If you are looking for a smaller book I've found the WSJ Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong to be pretty decent and pretty straight forward, and it's about 100 pages. It's not too focused on finance either, although that's what I got it for (I do front end development for financial analysis company - lots of charting).

   http://www.amazon.com/Street-Journal-Guide-Information-Graph...

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