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This thoroughly unusual book by designer and critic Jennifer Helfand will delight graphic, information, and book designers. It will equally fascinate those interested in intellectual history, history of technology, and popular culture. Helfand begins with an essay that interweaves the history of wheel charts with humanity’s fascination with the circle. The earliest volvelles (graduated movable [...]

Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information is a stunning display of the classics of information design, combined with a close analysis of design strategies that produce excellence in information displays. This book 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 [...]

Designing Visual Interfaces provides an excellent introduction to the design theory involved in the creation of user interfaces. Instead of the usual examples and pictures of computer screens and application menus, author Kevin Mullet approaches the concept of UI from its “outside world” roots. With examples ranging from street signs to corporate logos to the map of the London Underground, each section attacks the issues of interface design from the ground up […]