 | Some people call it info porn,” says Manuel Lima, the designer who created Visual Complexity, an online repository for these kinds of projects. “It’s a fascination with the simple fact of visualization.” In the decade since Edward Tufte released a trifecta of books on good information graphics in the 1990s, the discipline has morphed from the purview of cartographers and computer scientists into an aspirational field for young designers and honey for fickle consumers. |
“Cliff Kuang is a regular contributor to Print. He is a former editor at Harper’s, The Economist, and I.D., and writes regularly for Popular Science, Wired, and Fast Company.”
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