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Title: The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge: (with over 300 beautiful circular artworks, infographics and illustrations from across history)
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1616895284
ISBN 13: 9781616895280
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects--architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and physics, all based on the circle, the universal symbol of unity, perfection, movement, and infinity.

The Book of Circles juxtaposes clay trading tokens used by the ancient Sumerians with the iconic logos of twentieth-century corporations, a chart organizing seven hundred Nintendo offerings with a Victorian board game based on the travels of Nellie Bly, and a visual analysis of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining with early celestial charts that placed the earth at the center of the universe, among a wealth of other elegant and intriguing methods for displaying information.

Lima provides an authoritative history of the circle as well as a unique taxonomy of twenty-one varieties of circle diagrams, rounding out this visual feast for infographics enthusiasts.

About the Author

Manuel Lima is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the author of The Book of Trees,Visual Complexity, TheBook of Circles, and the forthcoming The New Designer. Named one of “the 50 most creative and influential minds" by Creativity magazine, Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Senior UX Manager at Google, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design. His writing has been published in Wired, the New York Times, and Science, among others.

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