資訊圖表暢銷作者大衛麥肯雷，
再度挑戰你的視覺想像力！
大衛麥肯雷前一本令人驚豔的《The Visual Miscellaneum》，以簡潔明快的插畫、圖表取代複雜文字訊息，除了帶給讀者新奇的視覺震撼，也成為「資訊圖像化」的代表作品。而新書《Knowledge Is Beautiful》更是他爐火純青的巔峰之作，再次透過線條與色彩的196種精妙組合，為大眾揭櫫世界運行的真實面貌。
現代人每分每秒都身處於多重媒體的資訊流裡，缺乏識讀的時間與空間。有鑑於此，作者決定將龐雜且抽象的訊息改頭換面，找出其中的關連與共同點，巧妙運用色彩與圖像加以改造、串連，讓訊息變得方便讀取、易於吸收。
本書較前作更強調知識性與邏輯性，將事件的前因後果以全觀的視角呈現，不僅在歷史與政治議題方面，就連科學與文學領域都有新穎的詮釋，相信無論是誰翻開後都會情不自禁地愛上這本打破固有閱讀框架、魔力加倍的創意圖像書！(文/ 博客來編譯)
In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works.
Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we’re steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David
McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays
that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to
provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results.
Knowledge is Beautiful is a fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, all of it bearing the hallmark of David McCandless’s boundary-breaking, signature style. The captivating
follow-up to the bestseller The Visual Miscellaneum, Knowledge is Beautiful offers a deeper, more ranging look at the world and its history, with more connectivity between the pages, a greater
exploration of causes and consequences, and a more inclusive global outlook. With a portion of its content crowd-sourced from McCandless’s international following, Knowledge is Beautiful
achieves a revolutionary and democratic look at the key issues from questions on history and politics, the facts of science, streams of literature, and much more.
This is a project that will truly push the boundaries of books everywhere, providing insights into our world in a way never seen before.
