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New guide to presenting diagrams
BIS Publishers has released a book by Jan Gauguin, entitled Designing Diagrams, a guide to the world of diagrammatic presentation of facts, figures, thoughts, processes and relations. The author believes that diagrams, previously restricted to academic publications and the business press, have widened in scope with the introduction of smartphones, presentation programs, iPods, Internet, GPS and other devices.
The target audience is primarily design students and professionals but the book should also prove to be useful to statisticians, economists, teachers and others who can be made aware of existing possibilities. The author has used different angles of approach with the intention to provide ideas for people who have communication needs in their professional lives, not just as a manual.
The tools employed are digital and guidelines are given on how to employ available 2D software and find suitable ways of presenting the results. One section of the book shows work done by designers from four continents. This content should therefore be of interest to people working in different national and language cultures.
The author is an experienced practising designer and has since the late 1980s been investigating digital means of visual communication. He has taught communication subjects at Kingston University (Surrey, England), The National College of Arts & Crafts (Oslo, Norway) and Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
View the preview. For more information and to order, go to BIS Publishers.
