Quotes by David McCandless

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. Its a relief.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. Its being poured into our eyes through the Web, and were all visualizers now; were all demanding a visual aspect to our information. Theres something almost quite magical about visual information. Its effortless; it literally pours in.

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, its having something of a second birth.