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The Minard system: the complete statistical graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard

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Charles-Joseph Minard's remarkable flow map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russia, made famous by Edward Tufte, is considered to be one of the most magnificent data graphics ever produced. ''The Minard System'' explores the nineteenth-century civil engineer's career and the story behind this masterpiece of multivariate data, as well as sixty of Minard's other statistical graphics reflecting social and economic changes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and around the world. These drawings are from the collection of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and have never before been published in their entirety.

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Follow me III: signage designs, defining spaces

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Follow Me 3 leads intrepid readers on an expedition through the latest in wayfinding and signage projects from around the world. The book delves into the concept behind each project and the integration of wayfinding programs in their environments, with a focus on visual guidance, space planning, and functional integration in a variety of settings. Projects are organized in easy to follow sections that cover educational and medical institutions, indoor public space, business centers, leisure centers, hotels and housing, and outdoor signage.

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Andrew Kuo: What me worry

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Repurposing the sad, comical and seemingly trivial minutiae of everyday life into pie charts, flow charts and other forms of visual data sorting, New York-based artist Andrew Kuo transforms the idlest of days into a witty analysis in color and pattern. The charm of these works lies not only in their balance of what might be called "cool content in geek form," but also in the criteria and gradations they measure. Kuo's obsessive charts, which resemble Op art, Concrete art or the abstractions of Josef Albers have reached a wide audience through his music reviews for The New York Times, as well as through numerous solo shows over the past ten years. What Me Worry adopts Mad magazine's slogan to gently poke fun at the artist's compulsive record-keeping, and compiles a range of charts, some of which are also made into colorful sculptures, alongside figurative paintings, diary musings and a series of recipes.

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Otto Neurath: The language of the Global Polis

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The Language of the Global Polis explores Neurath's ideas on the modern metropolis, his fascination with visual media and the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics and the ways in which Neurath attempted to internationalize the aims of his Museum of Society and Economy through collaborations with CIAM and Otlet and by establishing satellite museums across the world. Both scholarly and accessible, Vossoughian's text offers a new perspective to one of the most formidable intellectuals of the interwar period.

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The Hollywood sign

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Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents the earthly home of that otherwise ethereal world of fame, stardom, and celebrity -the goal of American and worldwide aspiration to be in the limelight, to be, like the Hollywood sign itself, instantly recognizable. How an advertisement erected in 1923, touting the real estate development Hollywoodland, took on a life of its own is a story worthy of the entertainment world that is its focus. Leo Braudy traces the remarkable history of this distinctly American landmark, which has been saved over the years by a disparate group of fans and supporters, among them Alice Cooper and Hugh Hefner, who spearheaded its reconstruction in the 1970s. He also uses the sign's history to offer an intriguing look at the rise of the movie business from its earliest, silent days through the development of the studio system that helped define modern Hollywood. Mixing social history, urban studies, literature, and film, along with forays into such topics as the lure of Hollywood for utopian communities and the development of domestic architecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign is a fascinating account of how a temporary structure has become a permanent icon of American culture.

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Toilet signs: sur la porte des toilettes

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Rien de plus banal a priori que ces sigles indiquant où se trouvent les toilettes pour hommes ou femmes : des gares aux restaurants et bistros, on tombe sur ces logos dès qu'une envie pressante nous pousse à fréquenter les salles d'eau d'un lieu public. Si souvent la séparation hommes/femmes est symbolisée par un pictogramme, il n'est pas rare de tomber sur des panonceaux plus originaux, humoristiques, surprenants voire. incompréhensibles ! C'est à un voyage visuel inédit que vous convie ce petit ouvrage illustré.

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Wayfinding and signage : construction and design manual

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The goal of this book is to communicate knowledge and information which help in the planning and application of effective orientation systems in the tourist industry. International examples from all areas of tourism create an overview of the subject. Topics covered include: congress centres, hotels, museums, parking structures, and medical facilities.