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Edward Tufte Talks information Design

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-design dept.

BoredStiff writes "The Weekend Edition of NPR ran a story on Edward Tufte — the outspoken critic of PowerPoint presentations — he has been described by The New York Times as "The Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. Tufte's most recent book is filled with hundreds of illustrations that demonstrate one concept: good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of life and death."

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  1. Point of the article? by graphicsguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did this article have a point, or was it just an advertisement for Tufte's new book?

  2. Re:A pressing need: Tufte-style interface library? by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Troll
    geoff AT cs DOT usyd DOOOOT edu DoT au

    (sorry about the stylized "dot" silliness, but something tells me that the traditional foo AT bar DOT com is probably already being mined by spammers - or will be soon)
    As an aussie you can be forgiven not knowing this, but your method of obfuscation will have no effect on canadian spammers.
  3. The Elements Of Book Names by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 0, Troll
    Tufte has been described as the Strunk and White of display. That's ironic, since the title of his first book, "The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information", must have Strunk and White rolling in their graves. Visual display? What other kind of display is there?

    How about "Displaying Quantitative Information"? That's got more snap to it.

    Okay, I'm being a picky here. But good communication requires just that.

  4. tuft is bogus hot air by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: 0, Troll

    who made this tuft person dictator of design ?
    is there any DATA thats right DATA not opinions to back up his crap ?

    this is an example of a whole field where someone becomes acknolwedged as a demigod based on nothing but his opinions, which are frequently wrong stupid or irritating

    sorry bout the rant, but when somoene goes so far on so little it really gets to me