Visualizing Complexity: Modular Information Design Handbook Perfect Paperback – Import, 23 May 2022

I thought this would be little bit different but anyway I liked it a lot. Good reference book to visualize little more complex data. Great explanation how many ways you could visualize same text. Have me a lot to think about. Cover of the book was although totally rubbish. Beauty over function. Did get in bad condition in no time. Especially when it got tiny tiny bit of water. 💦 but just irritating thing for that quality of content is so good why could not be book itself also. That is just about not thinking complex system enough. 🙂

It does what it says on the cover - What you get here is a conceptual framework of options for visualisations. There's a list of 80 different modules, or ways of representing information, and examples of how they can be put together. However, this is not a prescriptive "if this, then choose that" kind of book. It's really more like a menu of visual ingredients which can be assembled in endless ways.Many of the modules are very familiar: colour, shading, shape etc but others helpful to focus on as an option. They are tied into four themes in the logical and intuitive framework, which is a helpful way to structure options.Throughout the book they rely on data from a family tree of 10 people with varying characteristics and they re-use this data over and over again to display the data in SO many different ways. An excellent illustration how the narrative is guided by the visualization.As someone without graphic design background it's been insightful and I'll be keeping this as a reference. I've given it 4 stars as despite the fact that it's colour printed on every page on good quality paper and bound with a thick card cover, it feels a bit expensive.