If you are anything like me you like burritos and Kate Beckinsale. But if you are even more like me, you enjoy reading facts and figures and appreciate good design. The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia pulls those last two together perfectly.
Every day we are bombarded with facts and statistics that quickly become meaningless sound bites amidst the cacophony of the Information Age. It occurred to David McCandless, an award-winning London-based writer and graphic designer, that the best way to absorb this barrage of random information is by visually “mapping” facts in colorful and quirky ways. Statistics, comparisons, data both essential and entertaining—what better way for a new generation, weaned on the visual, to grasp the complexity of the modern world than through charts, illustrations, and diagrams that get right to the heart of the matter?
Hey they are talking about me...I am that new generation.
The book really is fantastic and beautifully done. You can see many of the "infographs" on David's blog, informationisbeautiful.net.
One is the "Billion Dollar Gram", which is a visual representation relating the cost of different billion dollar projects relative to one another. Another great one that David did is a visual representation of how the World see's the Left and Right side of our government. David's blog is full of these types of visualizations.
The book is available now on Amazon for under $20. It would be a great Christmas gift.

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