Infographics Designers Sketchbooks
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Graphic Design
Infographics Designers Sketchbooks Details
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 Read more 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. Read more
Reviews
This is a gorgeous book, if you or anyone else is interested in infographics and how they are made, this is well worth the price. It is an enormous hardback with many pages dedicated to the design of the infographics. The only caveat is that the art of the graphics is the focus, so you can't really read most of them as they are stand alone, without the accompanying article. Many are lacking the Info- part.
