All 4 books by Edward Tufte now in
paperback editions, $100 for all 4
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Visual Explanations
Beautiful Evidence
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Edward Tufte e-books Immediate download to any computer: Visual and Statistical Thinking $2
The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint $2
Seeing Around + Feynman Diagrams $2
Data Analysis for Politics and Policy $2
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Edward Tufte one-day course, Presenting Data and Information Philadelphia PA, May 14
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Gyorgy Kepes on figure and ground
Dr. Tufte,
One name that hasn't shown up in Ask E.T. is Gyorgy Kepes. Were he and his books (particularly "Education of Vision") important to you has you formulated your ideas?
Steve Sprague
-- Steve Sprague (email)
Response to Kepes
Chapter 3 on layering and separation in my Envisioning Information concludes with an important statement by Gyorgy Kepes (from The Language of Vision) about the universality of figure/ground ideas:
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-- Edward Tufte
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