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Tytuł: „The Functional Art”
Autor: Alberto Cairo
Wydawca: Pearson Education (US)
Data wydania: 2012-09-01
Język: Angielski
Liczba stron: 384

Spis treści

Spis treści / Table of contents

Table of contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Praise for The Functional Art

Dedication Page

Acknowledgements

About the author

About the DVD

Contents

Introduction: Infographics and Visualization

The partnership of presentation and exploration

Part I. Foundations

1. Why Visualize: From Information to Wisdom

Rational Optimism

Visualization as a Technology

2. Forms and Functions: Visualization as a Technology

An Information Graphic on Defense

3. The Beauty Paradox: Art and Communication

Building a Narrative Structure

The Visualization Wheel

4. The Complexity Challenge: Presentation and Exploration

It’s Not the Style, It’s the Content

Seek Depth

Finding Balance: Density and Multidimensionality

Part II. Cognition

5. The Eye and the Visual Brain

The Unexplained Eye

Let There Be Light

Foveal, Peripheral Vision, and Animated Infographics

The Lying Brain

6. Visualizing for the Mind

The Brain Loves a Difference

7. Images in the Head

How to Open an Airplane Door

Recognizing by Remembering

Part III. Practice

8. Creating Information Graphics

Brazilian Saints

The Changing Face of Brazil’s Population

Inequality and the Economy

9. The Rise of Interactive Graphics

Early Lessons on Interaction Design

Structuring Interactive and Animated Infographics

Different Kinds of Interaction

How to Plan For Interactive Infographics

Part IV. Profiles

Profile 1. The Infographics Gentleman

Profile 2. Information Art

Profile 3. All the Infographics That Are Fit to Print

Profile 4. Capital Infographics

Profile 5. Germanic Precision

Profile 6. Visualization in Academia

Profile 7. Quantitative Humanism

Profile 8. Truth and Beauty Operator

Profile 9. The Rising Stars

Profile 10. Visualizing Literature

Bibliography

Index

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Where are the Lesson Files?

Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter): Amazon.co.uk: Cairo, Alberto: 9780321834737: Books – spis treści

Contents
Introduction / xiv
PART I foundations
1. Why Visualize: From Information to Wisdom / 5
Rational Optimism / 6
Low-Tech Visualization to the Rescue / 8
Drowning in Data? Only If You Don’t Know How from Information 10 Wisdom / 15
Making Reality Visible / 17
Visualization as a Technology / 19
2. Form, and Function,: Visualization as a Technology / 25
An Information Graphic on Defense / 26
What Shape Should My Data Have? / 28
The Origins of “Form Follows Function” / 32
More about Punctlons in Nature / 33
Functions Constrain Forms / 36
The Bubble Plague / 39
More Flexible Than It Seems / 43
3. The Beauty Paradox: Art and Communication / 45
Building a Nam Live Structure / 46
An Unexpectedly Controversial Chart / 47
The Visualization Wheel / 50
Abstraction-figuration / 52
Functionality-Decoration / 53
Density-Lightness / 54
Multidimensionality-Unidimensionality / 54
Originality-Familiarity / 54
Novelty-Redundancy / 57
Identifying your audience / 59
Engineers vs. Designers: Edward Tulle and Nigel Holmes / 61
Minimalism and Efficiency / 63
Is All “Chartjunk” Junk? / 64
Fun and Functionality / 68
Otto Neurath and the Visual Education of the Masses / 70
4. The Complexity Challenge: Presentation and Exploration / 73
It’s Not the Style, It’s the Content / 74
Seek Depth / 76
Graphics Don’t “Simplify” Information / 78
Finding Balance: Density and Multidimensionality / 80
Functionality and Abstraction / 81
Fun-tionality / 85
Toe “Boom” Effect / 86
PART II cognition
5. The Eye and the Visual Brain / 97
Toe Unexplained Eye / 98
Let There Be Light / 99
Light and Photoreceptors / 100
Foveal, Peripheral Vision, and Animated lnfographics / 102
Toe Lying Brain / 105
The Efficient Brain / 108
A New Diagram For Vision / 110
6. Visualizing for the Mind / 111
Toe Brain Loves a Difference / 111
Toe Gestalt School of Thought and Pattern Recognition / 114
Choosing Graphic Forms Based on How Vision Works us
Toe Perceptual Tasks Scale as a Guide for Graphics / 123
Other Preattentive Features: Seeing in Depth / 128
7. Images in the Head / 133
How to Open an Airplane Door / 134
Recognising by Remembering / 136
Toe Comparing Brain / 139
The Mental Imagery Debate / 141
How Do We Really Know that a Face is a Face? / 142
Applying Object Recognition to Information Graphics / 144
Looking Ahead / 146
PART III practice
8. Creating Information Graphics / 153
Brazilian Saints / 154
The Changing Face of Brazil’s Population / 160
Inequality and the Economy / 167
A Word on Structure, Color. and Type / 171
9. The Rue of Interactive Graphics / 185
Early Lessons on Interaction Design / 188
Visibility / 189
Feedback / 190
Constraints / 192
Consistency / 192
Structuring Interactive and Animated lnfographics / 195
Different Kinds of interaction / 200
Instruction / 200
Conversation / 200
Manipulation / 203
Exploration / 204
How to Plan For Interactive lnfographics / 204
PART IV profiles
1. The Infographics Gentleman / 212
John Grimwade (Conde Nast Traveler magazine)
2. Information Art. / 231
Juan Velasco and Fernando Baptista (National Geographic magazine)
3. All the Infographics That Are Fit to Print / 250
Steve Duenes and Xaquin G.V. (The New York Times)
4. capital Infographics / 264
Hannah Fairfield (The Washington Post)
5. Germanic Precision / 279
Jan Schwochow (Golden Section Graphics)
6. Visualization in Academia / 293
GeoffMcGhee (Stanford University)
7. Quantitative Humanism / 306
Hans Rosling (Gapminder foundation)
8. Truth and Beauty Operator / 314
Moritz Stefaner (http://moritz.stefaner.eu)
9. The Rising Stars / 326
Gregor Aisch (driven-by-data.net) and Jan Willem Tulp (TULP interactive)
10. Visualizing Literature / 342
Stefanie Posavec (itsbeenreal.co.uk)
Bibliography / 351
Index / 354 

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