Gifts for information designers are always a problem at this time of year, but the Consumation blog has the answers!
Two books, one new, one not so new, will be welcome to everyone who loves our wacky world of typographics and infographics. With handy links to Amazon!
First up, the newbie, Simon Garfield's Just My Type - a book about fonts. I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but just hearing him on the radio was enough to know I want this book. People warned him, he said, that he would become type-obsessive. No, no, he breezed, no danger of that, I'm just a normal guy. And now ...
http://tinyurl.com/justtype
And the other, David McCandless and helpers have produced Information is Beautiful - a compendium of social, political, economic and miscellaneous data, engraphicised. Now I am in two minds about this. It seems to me to be a lovely object: lovely to look at, delightful to hold etc ... But every time I try to use it, or extract data from it, I start to get irritated with how the comparisons could be clearer, the mode of representation could be more apt. So I put it down. Then, days later, it starts to sing at me again, that siren song of the sub-BP logo on the front ... Read it, then decide.
http://tinyurl.com/infobeauty
Monday, 25 October 2010
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