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NPR : Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence'
Topic: Science 9:18 pm EDT, Sep  5, 2006

Tufte has a new book. I browsed it over the weekend. It is beautiful, as usual.

Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as "The Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. That might sound like a dry subject, but with Tufte, information becomes art.

Tufte's most recent book, Beautiful Evidence, is filled with hundreds of illustrations from the worlds of art and science. It contains historical maps and diagrams as well as contemporary charts and graphs. In one chapter alone, there's an 18th-century depiction of how to do a cross-section drawing of how a bird's wing works, and photos from a 1940s instruction book for skiing.

They all demonstrate one concept: Good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of life and death.

"If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself."

NPR : Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence'



 
 
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