Hi Carel,
There's a lot of light-weight coffee table books on the subject, but the texts I usually recommend are Edward Tufte's seminal works:
The Visual Display of Quantitive Information
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Envisioning Information
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei
Visual Explanations
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex
They're great at most levels and pantheon musts. As Leonardo say, Lima's Visual Complexity is also very good. The recently published Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann is a stunning book, isn't as analytical as Tufte but is a joy.
Other commonly used test include:
Data Flow: v 2 by Robert Klanten N. Bourquin and S. Ehmann
Data Flow by Robert Klanten and Gilles Berton
Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language by Robert Klanten, S. Ehmann and Franz Schulze
Best,
Rob
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University of Worcester
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On 16 Feb 2013, at 08:40, Carel Kuitenbrouwer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I would like to ask your help in putting together a list of the (top twenty) most-used (which doesn't necessarily mean most useful) sources for designers on how to make good info-graphics and data-visualizations. Does anyone know of such a list? Or would you care to name a few titles, which would be the start of a list. The further aim of this is to find general assumptions in literature and practice of "what works" in information visualization.
> Thank you in advance,
> Kindest Regards,
> Carel Kuitenbrouwer,
> teacher-researcher at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
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