created TED conferences. I love his concepts, but his personal Web site is a little too squishy for me. Click the link and see what I mean. It seems as though he likes black, red and white just as much as any minimalist designer. His strong points are statistical issues such as urbanization and politics. However, this industrial illustration is both beautiful and informative. These two qualities are hard to come by in the world of information graphics. The key word I would use to describe his work is graceful
Nigel Holmes: we know Nigel from those cute videos about national debt and the lovely British accent. However, his "wordless diagrams" are particularly interesting. Imagining complex steps without words is quite fun with these. Key word, simplicity.
Edward Tufte: a scientist with a graphic background, Tufte studied statistics more than ANY visual person I know. Non-informative display is his worst enemy. He believes that anything that is non-objective, such as decoration, could bias the results and remove the pure aspect of the data. He developed the concept of a sparkline.
We don't think of this as anything revolutionary today because this idea is so commonly-used in our media and so relevant to simple information design. Key word: datum.
Side note: Tufte has a lot to say about scale models that architecture students may find interesting.
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