[Editor’s note: Chrys Wu takes care of Web 2.0 type aggregation and promotion at The Washington Post. She has a blog and recent posts have focused on Infographics. I highlight several below. Nutgraph: Don’t think about one platform first. Think about all platforms available simultaneously. Also: “Infographics is not art, it is a conveyance of information.”]
Understanding Infographics, First Pass
As promised in a previous post on learning information graphics (sometimes shortened to “infographicsâ€), I’m posting my raw notes from Day 1 of an information graphics workshop taught last month by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V., two leading practitioners.
Above, Alberto Cairo teaches a data visualization seminar at Medialab-Prado in Madrid in 2007.
Read full notes from class . . .
Some of Chrys’ favorite information graphics and visualization blogs:
Alberto Cairo Has a Monster Reading List
Day One of the Beyond Bootcamp information graphics workshop taught by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V. has been much less scary than I’d first thought.
Cairo’s lecture has been a model of organized thought and progressive structure, which should come as no surprise to anyone, given the nature of his work.
What’s also obvious is that the man reads a heck of a lot. For every concept and example, he’s tossed off a different book title.
Here’s what he’s recommended to us so far, in no particular order:
- “How the Mind Works,†Steven Pinker (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “The Ghost Map,†Steven Johnson (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge,†Edward O. Wilson (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Wordless Diagrams,†Nigel Holmes (Amazon | BN | Powell’s | website | “Why Humor Helps Communication“)
- “Leonardo’s Notebooks†(Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Mr. Beck’s Underground Map†(Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Information Visualization: Perception for Design,†Colin Ware (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Visual Thinking: for Design,†Colin Ware (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Image and Mind,†Stephen Kosslyn (Amazon | BN | Powell’s)
- “Otto Neurath: The Language of Global Polis,†Nader Vossoughian (Amazon | BN | Powell’s | book review)