Information Graphics Hardcover – May 27, 2012

Let's get the obvious out of the way: The 480 page book is beautiful and packed with dozens of very good info graphics. Only 10% are worthy of return visits, and that critique is meant for the field itself. It's very difficult to make a convincing, data-rich infographic and this book makes that problem painfully obvious.The problem with so many of the infographics is their inability to convey a meaningful concept within a few seconds. This problem is compounded by vague rules of interpretation where you spend considerable time mentally mapping the relationships. For some people this may be fun, but infographics need more discipline as Tufte preaches, if we are to use them purposefully. The simpler the rules are, the faster you can start playing with it to draw your own conclusions about the data. Many of the infographics appear to be more focused on aesthetic treatments than showing information convincingly.The book misses an opportunity to present data-similar infographics but with different concepts, sequentially. This would allow readers to see how data can be manipulated rhetorically. More often than not, the data we want to show has some kind of skew that needs attention.

This book is an incredible value. Gorgeous artwork, riveting info, easy to pick up and put down any time you need, ultra comprehensive and just an all around rad book. Excellent design inspiration. Designers, data geeks and art appreciators alike will enjoy this book. Side note: this books is MASSIVE. Nothing prepared me for that...so consider yourself warned.

As a scientist, a person who makes a living interpreting graphs and charts for clients, I sometimes forget that graphs and charts and timelines really do make the interpretation of large numbers of words and numbers a snap. This book covers the entire spectrum of where graphics do, or have done, the most good in making people aware of what they might miss if they simply read the words and number. First, the book is a work of art. Its size, format, and multi-page-size format put it up there with the best of the coffee table art books. But what astounds me the most is that while reading Informational Graphics I continuously learn something new in a realm of art or science that I didn't know before cracking the page and viewing the graphic. Informational Graphics is the best book that I've purchased in a few years.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. Im a graphic designer and this book was essential for the class I took last semester. It was only $40 dollars at the time, but it was worth it. Soon everyone in my class bought this book and everyone loved the colors, and different infographics that were in the book. They even show old infographics as well. :)

I rated this book 4 stars because mine had a serious misprint where a page was cut improperly and sticks out.Other than that, it's an excellent quality book with interesting graphics throughout. It has some history, some collections, and some discussion. It's also in three languages, English, German, and French, and yes all at the same time. This is apparently common in design books. Most of the content is pictures so the extra text doesn't even take much space. The book is gigantic and well worth $50 to anyone. The knowledge taught by the inforgraphics within this book is itself worth quite a lot to any curioso.

Beautifully designed book in three languages! If you're familiar with the Tufte series, this book is very similar to those. The infographics used in the book will serve as an inspiration to anyone who is trying to develop their own style. I was particularly fond of the graphic on presidential achievements. If there's one drawback, it's that some of the graphics were very large in their original states so the detail is a little hard to view. But over all, I think the book is a well organized treatment on the visual display of information.

It's quite incredible this book can be purchased for this price here (and be delivered for free with Prime). It's a super high quality object, well designed, well printed and sporting such a wealth of knowledge and examples to make one spend months going through it. I highly recommend having this in our library if you're a designer of almost any sort, or have to work with data visualization regularly.

This book. THIS book, is one of the most beautiful Design books I have ever owned. I'm an Art History lover, and a Graphic Designer, so giving some history, and details into these infographics is very much appreciated. It's also gigantic. Almost too large, but that's never a problem for a design book collector.The only review I would give for criticism would be some of the pages were not trimmed with the registration lines upon shipment. 3-4 pages still have the registration marks and the extra bleed area. It's actually pretty strange, because the rest of the book is very clean cut. But these pages were tucked in the rest of the book. I'm just glad it didn't mess up any other part of it. I may get the guts to trim the rest off one day. For now, it's too pretty to mess with.