Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections - Visualized - Softcover

McCandless, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062188224 ISBN 13: 9780062188229

Publisher: Harper, 2014

Synopsis

In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works.

Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we're steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results.

Knowledge is Beautiful is a fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, all of it bearing the hallmark of David McCandless's boundary-breaking, signature style. The captivating follow-up to the bestseller The Visual Miscellaneum, Knowledge is Beautiful offers a deeper, more ranging look at the world and its history, with more connectivity between the pages, a greater exploration of causes and consequences, and a more inclusive global outlook. With a portion of its content crowd-sourced from McCandless's international following, Knowledge is Beautiful achieves a revolutionary and democratic look at the key issues from questions on history and politics, the facts of science, streams of literature, and much more.

This is a project that will truly push the boundaries of books everywhere, providing insights into our world in a way never seen before.

About this title

Review:

"From the amount the potential tax revenue from legalizing drugs worldwide to disappearing seed varieties, data journalist David McCandless transforms abstract information into engaging visuals. His book Knowledge Is Beautiful...has his newest graphics for making sometimes imperceptible connections accessible."--HYPERALLERGIC

"An inventive follow-up to 2009's cult hit "Information Is Beautiful."...Mr. McCandless has a gift for revealing hidden structures, patterns and connections, and "Knowledge is Beautiful" is thought-provoking as well as startlingly attractive."--Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and 'anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062188224
• ISBN 13: 9780062188229
• Binding: Flexibound
• Number of pages: 256