Bookshelves

[cider]

I think they ware awesome. I like the elegant simplicity. It also works well in a corner like that.

Thank you!

[member=59550]cider[/member]  What is remarkable (apart from the quality and design of these bookshelves) is that those five books by Edward Tufte are on my shelves too. They are must haves for anyone who is interested in information graphics (although I do think that Prof. Tufte is not a very nice person, his work is superb — his graphic design sense not so much IMO. After reading them you will never look again at a graphic without asking yourself what could be wrong with it — and knowing the answer too!

Hey cool--I don't run into a lot of people who are familiar.  Never met the guy, so I don't know much about him, but I appreciate his work.  I kinda feel the same way about Donald Norman: the guy has great ideas on UX, but IMO DOET is an example of bad design.

 

[Michael Kellough]

[member=59550]cider[/member]  What is remarkable (apart from the quality and design of these bookshelves) is that those five books by Edward Tufte are on my shelves too. They are must haves for anyone who is interested in information graphics (although I do think that Prof. Tufte is not a very nice person, his work is superb — his graphic design sense not so much IMO. After reading them you will never look again at a graphic without asking yourself what could be wrong with it — and knowing the answer too!

I like the bookcase a lot. Much rather have that than the books. Gave my Tufte books to my nephew who does that work professionally. Don't know if he really likes them...

 

[bertv]

I like the bookcase a lot. Much rather have that than the books. Gave my Tufte books to my nephew who does that work professionally. Don't know if he really likes them...

I can tell you that Tufte is THE authority on data-to-graphics and if you think about how much people are manipulated by terribly wrong images you would appreciate too. Case in point: the Challenger launch disaster.