Infographics Designers Sketchbooks - Hardcover

Heller, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616892862 ISBN 13: 9781616892869

Publisher: Adams Media, 2014

Synopsis

We are living in a golden age of data visualization, in which designers are responding to the information overload of our digital era with astonishing feats of visual thinking. Using a wide variety of techniques, they transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and memorable infographics. In recent years, books and websites have been collecting the field's best. While stimulating, these finished projects offer little insight into how visual solutions were reached, making them of limited use to designers wanting to produce work of their own. In Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, more than fifty of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a rare glimpse of their creative processes. Emphasizing idea-generating methods—from doodles and drawings to three-dimensional and digital mock-ups—this revelatory collection is the first to go inside designers' studios to reveal the art and craft behind infographic design.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Heller is the cochair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at NY's School of Visual Arts. He is the author of many books, including Graphic, Typography Sketchbooks, Scripts, and Shadow Type.

Rick Landers is founding partner and co-creative director of graphic design studio Landers Miller Design.

Review:

"An essential source of inspiration for graphic designers, publishers, editorial designers and anyone looking to breathe some life into their data presentation, Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks provides an in-depth look at both the creative and production process behind the world's leading data visualizations."-Cool Hunting

"This colorful collection of doodles, drawings, and digital mock-ups offers invaluable insight into how a pile of statistics can evolve into artful diagrams about anything from the shopping habits of American men to the adulteration of olive oil."-Fast Co.Design

"The examples selected by Heller and Landers literally jump off the page.Like the info graphics collected here, Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks is revelatory."-Communication Arts magazine

"It's fascinating to go behind the scenes of a designer's work process, in the way it's fascinating to flip through another person's journal or leaf through the papers on their desk. If nothing else, the book is a testament to the sketching process. It shows how designers, and even non-designers, can use a pen and paper to sort through some hairy, complex ideas."WIRED.com

"Careful analysis of each page and designer will yield a greater appreciation of this modern art form."-Interior Design Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1616892862
• ISBN 13: 9781616892869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351