Nigel Holmes

Nigel Holmes (me; born 1942) grew up in England, and moved to the US in 1978 to work at Time Magazine. When I left in 1994 I was the graphics director, and had written three books about information design. (They're out of print now, but Amazon usually has second-hand copies.) Other books include Wordless Diagrams (also now out of print: but you can get a copy for 1 cent on Amazon's second-hand sellers list; a true bargain!) and Nigel Holmes on Information Design, by Steven Heller.

My first children's book is Pinhole and the Expedition to the Jungle. It's for children aged somewhere around 10 or 11 (but people tell me it's not really a children's book at all). You can also get a full-color version of it for the iPad, with jungle sounds.

The Book of Everything (Lonely Planet, December 2012) is full of tips, friendly warnings, diagrams, maps, charts, lists and fun associated with travel (some only tangentially associated, I must say). In 2014 I did a companion book called Instant Expert (also published by Lonely Planet), which has a similar mix of fun and information. Both these seemed to have found an audience with young people aged 10 and up.

I'm working on a book for Taschen right now. It's called Odd, and is a collection of 100 weird things that people do annually to become world champion (for instance, in such events as bog snorkelling and worm charming), or just to have fun taking part in dwile flonking, tuna tossing or hair freezing. It'll be out simultaneously in English, French, German and Spanish early in 2017.

Please don't get me mixed up with another Englishman named Nigel Holmes. His books are about taking erotic photographs.