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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Understanding the USA by Richard Saul Wurman

Understandingusa I'll confess to never having spent much time with these graphics. They are classics in the info-graphic field by now and we're looking a lot at them this week.

Check them out even if you've seen them before.

From infoaesthetics:

as one of the (somewhat older, but still spectacular) classics of information design & infographics, Richard Saul Wurman's "Understanding USA is a celebration & a visual demonstration of question & answers leading to understanding". it is an online collection of information-rich illustrations that visually explain important phenomena inside the USA.

especially the entries of Hani Rashid & Lisa Anne Couture are visually intriguing but at the same time highly critized for their data noise & pure formalism. there was a time these 3D data sculptures could be explored & navigated in 3D (VRML), but it seems those links are unfortunately dead?

[link: understandingusa.com]

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