“Envisioning Information” by Edward R. Tufte and also his other books.Tufte is the go to guy for information design. Another good book is “Designer’s Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams” by Nigel Holmes

http://www.informationdesign.org/publications/index.php

Bojev
Thanks. I had looked at Tufte’s books online and was impressed, although because my browser is playing up I couldn’t view the pages.
I might get a couple of Tufte’s books to start with — “Envisioning Information”, and one other; any recommendations on the second book, given my specific requirments?

Sihep
Thanks as well. I have previously read the Infomation Design Journal and I know one or two of the staff at Reading Uni’s Typo department, but I must of completley missed the website. I have a leaflet for John Benjamin Publishing advertising Rune Pettersson’s Introduction to Information Design — do you have this book? I wonder whether it discusses the philosophies of information design, or is a techinical manual — the second would be preferable.

PS love the photos on Flickr, really beautiful.

I second the Nigel Holmes suggestion; I studied under Nigel at RISD back in the 80s when he was king of the infographic.

“Information Design and Infographics” (Rein Houkes, editor) (Peter Sullivan, David Case, Norbert Bolz, Nigel Holmes, Paul Mijksenaar, Sam Ward, Friedrich W. Burkhardt) Report of the seminar ’Information Design and Infographics’ september 1993

“Digital Information Graphics” (Matt Woolman) Mapping, informing, interacting & exploring

“Mapping web sites” (Paul Kahn & Krysztof Lenk) over Mapping, planning, diagrams, practice & experience, site maps, data-driven

Thanks — I’ve had a look on Google for “The Report of the seminar Information Design and Infographics september 1993”, but with no luck; do you have a link?

it ain’t much:
http://isbn2book.com/90-802152-2-8/information_design_and_infographics/