History Shots
Few people know this about me, but one of my passions is creating information graphics: figuring out how to present complex topics in a graphic format so they are readily understood. It comes up occasionally in my work, though not as often as I would like. In a better planned life I would have probably pursued this into a lucrative career. Oh well. That’s what happens when you put the horse before the cartographer, or something like that.
I offered the previous paragraph as an explanation for my excitement on discovering HistoryShots.com. The site only offers 15 prints so far, but they are amazing and wonderful: Race to the Moon, History of Political Parties I, Conquest of Everest, Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music, History of France from 1787 to 1833, etc. If you’re just itching to give me a Christmas present, you could do worse than one of these.*
Comments
Those are very cool.
And I must say, after sitting through four hours of board and committee meetings today that featured lame PowerPoint presentations highlighting poorly developed pastel charts and bar graphs, I wish there were more people with your passion for creating information graphics. (Clearly, no one in the administration of my university has read Edward Tufte.)
Posted by: Elle | December 7, 2007 10:46 PM