The new book by Manuel Lima of Visual Complexity has just been released! Featuring an extensive collection of visualizations and infographics, sorted by topics. The chapter about literature contains our work on a double spread. More information on the book can be found on visualcomplexity.com.
We are proud to announce our feature in the upcoming book “Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information” by Manuel Lima of visualcomplexity.com! You can preorder it at amazon now. Find out more here!
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima (temporary cover design)
It’s been a while, but I just opened the book “Generative Gestaltung” by Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub and Claudius Lazzeroni again. Shame on me that I didn’t post this earlier. It is absolutely amazing and a must for everyone working in the area of graphic design. It contains well-selected examples of generated graphics and very useful examples. Plus, the design of the book itself is outstanding. But the best thing is, it features Similar Diversity on 2 pages!
More than 35 design teams from all around the world are featured in this new publication titled Information Design Handbook, including us! It has just been published by RotoVision and we’re waiting eagerly for a copy. Thanks to the authors Jennifer and Ken Visocky O’Grady for the feature.
The book is also available at F+W Publications / HOW Book in North America or on amazon.
As announced in the previous post, the book Data Flow has been published now! They printed our work in the section “Datanets” on a whole spread, which is great because you can see all the tiny details. It’s a great book with fabulous works, for example Stefan Sagmeister’s and Ben Cohen’s Move Our Money, an inflateable data visualisation of military budgets, or the great World Mapper – and so many I haven’t seen yet. On the page following ours is the work of Felix Heinen, which we like a lot. It’s a book well worth studying. Here are some impressions:
Again, here’s the link if you want to order it.
Photos by Gregor Hofbauer.
Coming in September 2008, the book Data Flow by Die Gestalten Verlag contains an extended feature of our work. The Similar Diversity graphic is printed on a spread, along with the caption and an descriptive text.
Details on the book can be found on the webpage of Die Gestalten Verlag. I’m a big fan of the cover design already and I’m looking forward to the other projects featured in the book. The previews look amazing.
Inside the book
Similar Diversity is featured with an article and interview in the just published Information Design Workbook by Kim Baer. Thanks to Quayside Publishing Group and Rockport Publishers for selecting our work to be part of this publication alongside other great data visualization projects.
We completely agree to Tufte.
PS: Unfortunately the photo credits we provided were not included. They were made by Andreas, Tobi and Birgit.
DSC_6043 – Arbeitskopie 2.jpg, originally uploaded by sebl7935.
This is a great view of the exhibition from above.
As mentioned, our original print was part of the exibition at NODE08 Forum for Digital Arts in Frankfurt from April 5 – 11 2008, together with artworks from Eno Henze, Martin Zeplichal, The Very Many, Benedikt Groß and installations like Wii Wii Wii Wii and Tagtool and others. The Diakoniekirche in Frankfurt was a perfect setting for our data visualization:
The print was shown in the center of the church.
Andreas (right) explains the diagrams to Woeishi Lean, a vvvv artist (left).
Philipp (left) and Sebastian Oschatz from MESO (right) discussing the visualization.
We would like to thank the organisers of this great festival for their support and the invitation.
Yesterday we arrived in Frankfurt, with the 2,80 x 6,20 meter original print of Similar Diversity. The construction of the wooden frame was done by David Kraus and Satis&Fy, who provide great support for the whole festival.
Transporting the print, arriving at the Diakoniekirche
Arriving in Frankfurt (left: Wolfgang, right: Philipp)
Construction of the frame and mounting of the print in the Diakoniekirche in Frankfurt. Exhibition is opened each day from 5 p.m.