Data Design: Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections - Hardcover

Mollerup, Per

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408191881 ISBN 13: 9781408191880

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2015

Synopsis

Data Design: Visualising quantities, locations, connections is a lively and comprehensive introduction to data visualisation, illustrated with 199 instructive data displays. The book is for designers, journalists, editors, writers and anyone concerned with presenting factual information in a clear and effective way.

Data Design highlights the key qualities of good data visualisation: accuracy, simplicity, and clarity. In this spirit, Per Mollerup discusses information design with great clarity. The proposed data displays are as simple as possible, and every graphic element is there to convey meaning. This book is not about data decoration.

Data Design can be read from cover to cover, but it doesn't have to be. It can also serve as a reference guide. Each of the data displays included is explained in such a way as to clarify the problems to be addressed and the method by which to address them, enabling the reader to develop the skills with which to improve their data visualisation designs.

About this title

About the Author

Born 1942Doctor of Technology, Lund University, Sweden, 1997Master of Business Administration, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, 1968 Professor of Communication Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 2009-Professor in design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 2006-2009 Managing Director of Designlab A/S, Copenhagen, 1984-Editor and publisher of Tools Design Journal, 1984-1988Editor and publisher of Mobilia Design Magazine, 1974-1984 Recipient of several prizes and grantsHonorary member of Estonian Association of DesignersPresident Elect, IIID International Institute of Information DesignMember of the Advisory Board of Information Design JournalMember of the International Advisory Board of MSc Course Traffic & Transport Information design, IIID / FH St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria National Chairman 1988-1993 The Danish Society of Book Crafts

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408191881
• ISBN 13: 9781408191880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176