Information is Beautiful is over 200 pages of beautiful infographics; data displayed in creative image format. Topics include pop-culture, the internet, food, the environment, politics, health, science and more.
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Back in the day, *the* coffee-table book you could pick up and read a few pages of and find out some fascinating figure to share with others was the Guiness Book of World Records. It was also the perfect gift to give to your dad, or your uncle or anyone else who was hard to buy for. That fad seems to have come and gone, thanks largely to being able to look those records up with ease on Wikipedia.
“Information is Beautiful” is the perfect replacement gift. Pick any page and learn some fascinating facts and figures in a beautifully illustrated display.
Examples include:
– Carbon emissions for various household objects
– A timeline of global media scare stories
– The most edited Wikipedia pages
Things that made me go hmmmm
The conclusion
Love this book – you can pick it up and put it down and then have a fascinating conversation with the people you’re with about what you’ve just been looking at. You don’t need to be a maths whizz to understand the information and there’s something of interest for everyone. We had the book out over Christmas while we had a lot of visitors and it was the perfect ice-breaker!
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One of my all time favourite books. Would love to get some of the graphics as posters and have them on display in my man-cave.