Edward Tufte spent a career arguing for restraint. Nigel Holmes spent his making charts you'd actually want to look at. As longtime graphics director at Time, Holmes built the explanatory graphic into something warm, funny and readable at a glance, and these two books show it at either end of his career.
Pictorial Maps: History, Design, Ideas, Sources (Watson-Guptill, 1991) is Holmes's survey of the illustrated map, from historical curiosities to the working designer's toolkit. This is a first printing (the copyright page states it). Hardcover.
Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data (CRC Press, an A K Peters book) is the later statement: how to make data approachable without making it stupid. Paperback.
And because every good shelf needs a wild card: Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Universe by Tim Leong (Chronicle Books), a book that treats Marvel's characters, teams and timelines as data, right down to the Spider-Man radar chart on the cover that rates him on "Great Power" and "Great Responsibility." Paperback.
Three books for anyone who thinks about how ideas become pictures.
All three are in excellent condition, with no damage. Ships fully insured within one business day.
The Tufte set that makes the opposite case is offered separately on our eBay shop.
Edward Tufte spent a career arguing for restraint. Nigel Holmes spent his making charts you'd actually want to look at. As longtime graphics director at Time, Holmes built the explanatory graphic into something warm, funny and readable at a glance, and these two books show it at either end of his career.
Pictorial Maps: History, Design, Ideas, Sources (Watson-Guptill, 1991) is Holmes's survey of the illustrated map, from historical curiosities to the working designer's toolkit. This is a first printing (the copyright page states it). Hardcover.
Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data (CRC Press, an A K Peters book) is the later statement: how to make data approachable without making it stupid. Paperback.
And because every good shelf needs a wild card: Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Universe by Tim Leong (Chronicle Books), a book that treats Marvel's characters, teams and timelines as data, right down to the Spider-Man radar chart on the cover that rates him on "Great Power" and "Great Responsibility." Paperback.
Three books for anyone who thinks about how ideas become pictures.
All three are in excellent condition, with no damage. Ships fully insured within one business day.
The Tufte set that makes the opposite case is offered separately on our eBay shop.
