Infographic & Data Visualizations

Infographics and data visualization design is a discipline encompassing a variety of fields. Meanwhile, it is a useful branch of design in practicality. It uses a narrative, analytical design language in the process of conception. The book explores approaches to infographics and data visualization design, and also the artistic value in it. With a large number of the latest projects, the book showcases this “global visual language.” Readers can directly learn from these projects how to visualize and simplify complex information systematically. Though dedicated to finding a shortcut to infographics and data visualization design, the book encourages designers to exercise infinite creativity and produce original works with their own identity.

Wang Kai, was born in Shanghai, graduated from Shanghai University of Fine Arts.He got a Master degree and also a teacher here. He got the National Scholarship Fund in 2008,and also as a visiting scholar at the California State University. His work is mainly engaged in multimedia art and design, graphics creation, and Comparative Study of Chinese and Western design culture. He used to be a teacher in the Shanghai Institute of Technology,. Currently he is teaching at East China Normal University, College of Design.