Rosenberg and Grafton’s Cartographies of Time (2010) is a lovely book to look at. It has an elegant design, and is illustrated in four colour throughout. Most of the timelines mentioned are …
A page from Baskerville’s edition of The Bible, 1763 [public domain]
I like the Very Short Introductions, which often give me an overview of a subject in just a few pages, so I was very enthusiastic to read Typography: A very …
I don’t have access to the EBSCO Discovery Service, but above is an example screenshot provided by EBSCO as an example. A concept map (or knowledge graph) is just a visual collection of links. Sometimes, as here, there …
The academic research journey must be one of the most studied aspects of higher education. One of the most impressive visually was the infographic by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer in 2016 (for example a presentation at the Force2016 Conference), showing …
Do you understand this graphic? It is an example of a sparkline, by Edward Tufte. Tufte was, if not the originator of sparklines, one of its earliest advocates. He wrote about them in his book Beautiful Evidence (2006); he defines sparklines as …
