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All 5 books, Edward Tufte paperback $180
All 5 clothbound books, autographed by ET $280
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Visual Explanations
Beautiful Evidence
Seeing With Fresh Eyes
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Edward Tufte e-books Immediate download to any computer: Visual and Statistical Thinking $5
The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint $5
Seeing Around + Feynman Diagrams $5
Data Analysis for Politics and Policy $9
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Our website imagequilts.com shows the new work of ET and Adam Schwartz on quilts (a variety of small multiples) that show 100 to 500 images on a single screen.
There is also a free Chrome app that composes, sorts, and edits the results from Google images.
Video demo:
Georges Vantongerloo
Vantongerloo was a painter and sculptor associated with the DeStijl group. This quilt places images of his small sculptures in the top row, above an assortment of paintings (with some repeats). The paintings served as design-sketch for stucco cladding of a studio/barn.
Subatomic Particles
This quilt shows images of collisions of subatomic particles. Many of the original images were decorated in strong colors, now desaturated to black and white.
Hillside Vineyards
Description of the Hillside Vineyards quilt.
Terrace Farming
Description of the Terrace Farming quilt.
Paul Klee
Description of the Paul Klee quilt.
Paul Klee, High-resolution Elements
Description of the Paul Klee, High-resolution Elements quilt.
Paul Klee Palette
Description of the Paul Klee Palette quilt.
Pablo Picasso
Description of the Pablo Picasso quilt.
The Quilts Of Gee's Bend
Description of the The Quilts Of Gee's Bend quilt.
47 Animal Sounds Over And Over
Description of the 47 Animal Sounds Over And Over quilt.
Feynman Diagrams
Description of the Feynman Diagrams quilt.
Feynman 32
Description of the Feynman 32 quilt.
Eadweard Muybridge
Description of the Eadweard Muybridge quilt.
Sorting Algorithms
Description of the Sorting Algorithms quilt.
Crime Scene Fingerprints
Description of the Crime Scene Fingerprints quilt.
Georges Vantongerloo Paintings
Description of the Georges Vantongerloo Paintings quilt.
Chinese Calligraphy
Description of the Chinese Calligraphy quilt.
Agnes Martin
Description of the Agnes Martin quilt.
Syed Haider Raza
Description of the Syed Haider Raza quilt.
Josef Albers
Description of the Josef Albers quilt.
Taking a line for a walk / on the margins
Below, original graphic from "Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines," published Feb. 11, 2015 by Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman for the Wall Street Journal as part of Project Tycho. (article here)
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
The heat map shows number of cases per 100,000 people.
Here, the graphic re-worked, without active whitespace.
-- ET (email)
COULD PASSIVE WHITESPACE EXIST ?
The removal of the active whitespace changes,
and in many ways, improves the original graphic.
It would be interesting to know if anyone tried
to tone down the white lines to something less
aggressive - such as a 5 to 10% grey hairline
overlay with the colours touching as shown in
the reworked image. As display quality improves
we may not need to design for pixel intervals.
We may actually be able to approach the quality
of a hairline ink mark discussed elsewhere in the
ET notebooks and shown in maps, colour wheels,
auction catalogues, and other documents from the
last couple of millennia.
The eye and brain need a boundary or a visual
reference point to help decipher the data on
the axes. The colours do it but it may be able
to be improved.
The physical analogue might be the ghost grid
paper - subtle enough to indicate a consistent
reference but does not get in the way of the
message.
OTHER REFERENCES
ET Notebooks : Maps moving in time...
https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003vq
ET Notebooks : Book design...
https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000hB
Ghost Grid Paper
https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
-- Tchad (email)