GRAPHIS DIAGRAMS
The Graphic Visualization of Abstract Data
Walter Herdeg [Editor]
Zürich: The Graphis Press, 1981. Fourth expanded edition [Publication no. 165]. Text in English, German and French. Square quarto. Glazed pictorial boards. 207 pp. 399 color and black and white examples. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Lightly handled with trivial wear: a nearly fine copy. Uncommon thus.
9.25 x 9.5 hardcover book with 207 pages and 399 black and white and color examples of data graphics. Introduction by Leslie S. Segal. Designed and produced to the highest standards of Zurich’s Graphis Press. With a name like Graphis, its got to be good.
“The purpose of this book is to show the designer how abstract facts or functions which cannot be simply depicted like natural objects may be given visual expression by suitable graphic transformation. It also reviews the means of visualizing physical and technical processes which are not perceptible to the eye. The optimum synthesis of aesthetics and information value remains the essential objective in every type of diagrammatic presentation…”
Contents:
- Editors Foreword by Walter Herdeg
- Introduction by Leslie Segal
- Comparative Statistical Diagrams
- Flow Diagams, Organization Charts, etc.
- Diagram Visualizing Functions, Processes
- Tabulations, Timetables, etc.
- Cartographic Diagrams, Decorative Maps
- Diagrams used as Design Elements, Computer-plotted Diagrams
- Supplement
- Index to Artistis & Designers
- Index to Art Directors
- Index to Agencies and Studios
- Index to Clients and Publishers
- Abbreviations used for countries of origins
A comprehensive survey featuring the legendary designers you would expect and then some. Many uncommon examples - highly recommended.
Designers include Karl Gerstner, Richard Saul Wurman, Piero De Macchi, Hans Jürgen Rau, Max Schmid, Pentagram, Peter Knapp, Bruno Oldani, Hans Werner Klein, Elso Schiavo, Hans Hartmann, Erik Nitsche, Jacques Charrette, Robert Pelligrini, Eksil Ohlsson, Cyril Stauffenberger, Gottfried Prölls, Robert Cipriani, Mervyn Kurlansky, Rudi Valentini, Peter Knapp, Lubalin, Smith, Carnase, Saul Bass, Hans Erni, Jean Michel Folon, Siegfried Odermatt, Richard Hess, Leo +Diane Dillon, Willi Reiser, Hans Troxler, Alain Le Foll, Milton Glaser, Takeshi Akutsu, Will Burtin, Ryohei Kojima, Miguel Covarrubias, Yuzo Yamashita, Antonio Petrucelli, Herbert Bayer, Atelier Frutiger, Louis Kahn, Otl Aicher, Gottshalk & Ash, Massimo Vignelli, Igildo G. Biesele, Eugen & Max Lenz, Wim Crouwel, Henrion Design Assoc., Fritz Gottschalk, Alfred Hohenegger, Richard Saul Wurman/Howard Brunner, Etienne Delesert, Erwin Poell, Atelier Stankowski, Walter Allner, Arnold Saks, Heinz Waibl, Walter Baumann, Felix Bertran, J. van der Toorn Vrijhoff, James Miho, Rosmarie Tissi, and Total Design among many others.