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Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
Originally published in French in 1967, Semiology of Graphics holds a significant place in the theory of information design. Founded on Jacques Bertin’s practical experience as a cartographer, Part One of this work is an unprecedented attempt to synthesize principles of graphic communication with the logic of standard rules applied to writing and topography. Part Two brings Bertin’s theory to life, presenting a close study of graphic techniques including shape, orientation, color, texture, volume, and size in an array of more than 1,000 maps and diagrams.
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Discovering the story in the information Tufte’s books have captured a lot of Bertin’s message regarding the visual aspect of graphics (which is, in my experience, now all that is meant by “graphics”), and in a more clear, succinct, and possibly even comprehensive manner. However, _Semiology_ is about much more than what can be seen – it deals extensively with how to get an interesting story from information, which (if I remember correctly) Tufte does not address. I’ve only seen one other author deal with the process of sifting/sorting/refactoring to find interesting correspondences – Charles L. Owen (in Structured Planning, ) – though it is probably covered in many statistics curricula and is necessarily a part of graduate training in most fields, as Bertin predicts in this book’s foreward.I would like to say that Bertin presents this important perspective/process in a compelling graphic way, but in fact the book is as dense and inconsistently structured as any of Tufte’s great counterexamples. The figures are…
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from the depth to the heights