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"The Art of Looking Sideways"
This book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom
and insights collected from all over the world. Describing himself as
a visual jackdaw, master designer Alan Fletcher has distilled a lifetime
of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration
of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox,
illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture,
style, aesthetics and value.
700 pages inspiration.
Published by Phaidon, http://www.phaidon.co.uk
"LifeStyle"
More manifesto than monograph, Life Style is the first book to document
Bruce Mau's creative process and his studio practice, Bruce Mau Design.
Conceived and designed by the studio, the book is a singular album of
playful and critical statements about the visual and cultural trends that
influence today's image driven context. This collection of Mau's essays,
observations, anecdotes and project documentation embodies his unique
world view and his belief that form and content are inseparable.
Published by http://www.phaidon.co.uk
You will find his site at http://www.brucemaudesign.com/
Three classics by Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice
in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few
of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display
data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution
displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink
ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs.
Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation.
Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.
"Original, beautifully presented, sharp and learned, this book is
a work of art. The art here is cognitive art, the graphic display of relations
and empirical data."
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Order from http://www.edwardtufte.com
Envisioning Information
This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer
screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The
most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information
shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces,
statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom
exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful
displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how
to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples
to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics
include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs,
layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17
awards for design and content. 400 illustrations with exquisite 6- to
12-color printing throughout. Highest quality design and production.
Order from http://www.edwardtufte.com
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion,
process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical
applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making
important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams,
design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations
and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies
for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations,
and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch
the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots
show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book
is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color
throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after
effects. "The Leonardo da Vinci of data."
NEW YORK TIMES
Order from http://www.edwardtufte.com
Alan
Koppel Gallery
A nice web gallery
www.alankoppel.com/akg/akg.php
Allt om Paul Auster
If you like Paul Auster you´ll find a lot of interest at "Paul
Auster-The Definitive Website"
www.paulauster.co.uk/body.htm
Winning interaction at
www.commarts.com/CA/interactive/
What time is it?
www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html
Why WTC collapsed
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
Stunning panoramas to navigate
www.panoramas.dk/
Information design in all its dimensions
www.informationdesign.org/index.php
Infographics
Remember 25-30 years ago when the weather forecasts in the newspapers
were tiny black-and-white squares? Then came USToday and the rest is history.
Infographics has been an art by itself.
www.visualjournalism.com/
Transparent New York
How Manhattan has developed through the years.
www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/transparent.html
Entrance free
When I was to visit Getty Center after the restoration some years ago
it was a five days line to the parking lot. Now you don´t have to
make a reservation for parking any longer. The fee is 5 dollars. Entrance
is free. There and here.
www.getty.edu
Artforum
Hope you don´t miss it, comes every month, not too american-oriented,
and with links to the world´s leading art museums and their current
exhibitions.
www.artforum.com
Find the hard facts (in swedish)
www.referensboken.com/
TASCHEN's mission
TASCHEN's mission is to choose the most interesting, important, and pertinent
subjects within a delectable range of disciplines, to make beautiful,
unique, high-quality books on these subjects, to translate them into many
languages, and make them available all over the globe for prices ranging
from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars so that folks of all income
brackets can get passionate about TASCHEN within their budgets.
www.taschen.com
Ugly page but nice books
Welcome to Schirmer/Mosel, the Munich-based publisher for fine art and
photography books.
www.schirmer-mosel.de/
Wonderful Copenhagen
Since we are only 30 minutes from Copenhagen we use this website a lot
when we are searching for a new restaurant
www.aok.dk
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