Graphics Press (Cheshire, Connecticut) 1992, English text 121 pp.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland? This book celebrates escapes from flatland, rendering several hundred superb displays of complex data. Our investigation yields general principles that have specific visual consequences, governing the design, editing, analysis, and critique of data representations These principles help to identify and to explain design excellence - why some displays are better than others. The principles of information design are universal - like mathematics. Consequently, our examples are widely distributed in space and time: illustrations come from 17 countries and 7 centuries, and for that matter, 3 planets and 1 star.