The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06VX7YWJL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 410 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Design"If there is a universal building, block it's probably round. The book joins Lima's previous work, The Book of Trees, as an important study of one of our most human of impulses: to give abstractions visible form. Lima's aim is not so much to tell this history as to show it. It's a ravishing tour, from the spangled glory of globular star cluster M13, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, to Martin Krzywinski's bold 2007 radial genomics diagram Human-Dog Homology. This ancient and universal impulse will no doubt continue in perpetuity. All readers." - Choice m
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and praised by Wired Magazine "as the man who turned data into art", Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity, Design Lead at Google, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design as well as a frequent speaker at universities and events worldwide.
Beautiful book __Alessandro__ Like it's predecessor (The Book of Trees), this is a beautiful book -- wonderfully crafted, beautiful color photos, high-quality paper. [What I wonder though, is why the publisher chose to make it physically taller and wider than The Book of Trees. Since the covers are clearly matching designs, why wouldn't they be the same size, as part of a set?] The content is marvelous, with innumerable examples. However, there is less explication and commentary than in The Book of Trees -- and at times, with some of the more bizarre visualization. "Beautiful piece, worth the wait" according to Reyna F. If you are a design book geek, this book is for you. Beautiful piece, worth the wait!. Suzy said Five Stars. Awesome book- inspiration for artists and everyone else!
Lima's introduction provides an authoritative history of the circle, and a preface describes his unique taxonomy of the many varieties of circle diagrams, rounding out this visual feast for infographics enthusiasts.. In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects—architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and physics, all based on the circle, the universal symbol of unity, wholeness, infinity, enlightenment, and perfection. Clay tokens used by ancient Sumerians as a system of recording trade are juxtaposed with logos of modern retailers like Target; Venn diagrams are discussed alongside the trefoil biohazard symbol, symbols of the Christian trinity, and the Olympic rings; and a diagram revealing the characteristics of ten thousand porn stars displays structural similarities to early celestial charts placing the earth at the center of the universe