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In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Three hundred detailed and colourful illustrations cover an encyclopedic array of subjects, drawing fascinating parallels across time and culture. The clay tokens used by ancient Sumerians as a system of recording trade are juxtaposed with the logos of modern retailers like Target; Venn diagrams are discussed side by side with symbols of the Christian trinity, the trefoil shape of the biohazard symbol, and the Olympic rings; a diagram revealing the characteristics of 10,000 porn stars displays structural similarities to early celestial charts placing the earth at the centre of the universe.
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'explores information design in the form of circles from 18th-century musical scores to photographs of Jupiter.' --The Guardian
'celebrates the beauty and versatility of circles. Author and designer Manuel Lima explains why we're so attracted to this most simple of shapes.' BBC Science Focus
'The human iris, a full Moon, volcanic calderas: natural circles have inspired culture for millennia. Information visualizer Manuel Lima gathered centuries' worth of circular charts, graphics and illustrations for this volume, organized in a 'taxonomy' spanning everything from spirals to pies. 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. Puts circular thinking in a whole new light.' --Nature magazine
'The humble circle gets its due in this visual study by designer Manuel Lima (The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge), who specializes in the visualization of data.' --Publisher's Weekly
From the Author
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, prasied by Wired Magazine "as the man who turned data into art", Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Design Lead at Google, and a regular teacher of data visualisation at Parsons School of Design.
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- PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1616895284
- ISBN 13 9781616895280
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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