Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6492 in Books
• Published on: 1990
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 126 pages

Customer Reviews

Beautiful illustrations and ideas
I am very impressed by the book's quality. Beautiful examples nicely explained, the layout and colour of the book itself all reflecting the author's ideas quite well. I like this book more than just as my study material.

More than I knew ...
I put his work to use. I make a lot of charts and tables, and I am more satisfied now that I put his advise to work on a project I'm on. But beyond that, I'm looking for every opportunity to use this advise. The stuff I used to produce looks like it needs a revision.

worth it for one example alone...
... though there are plenty others in the book that are fascinating.

I flipped open the book just now and arrived at a discussion of whether Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial should have had the names ordered by date of death or alphabetically. As there were over 600 Smiths who died in Vietnam and 16 James Joneses, an alphabetical listing would have given the memorial the flavor of a telephone directory.

Tufte persuasively argues and demonstrates how graphic design and information presentation affects thinking, decision-making, and emotion.