About charts and graphs

30th Jun. 2002
Part of a series in the AIGA design forum this article is another one of those convenient lists of "do's and don't's" for practicioners who don't want or don't have the time to dig deeper. Unfortunately I cannot link to the pdf download directly so you must go through the AIGA site.

Reviewing these basic dos and don’ts, it might be hard to imagine that there is any fun to be had making charts. But there is. Because when you know the rules, you know when you can break them, too. In the 1920s there was a trend to use little piles of symbolic drawings in place of plain bars in charts. Tiny oil barrels, cars, people, dollar signs and telephones brought otherwise boring-looking data to life. It was very simple, and fun, too. It’s worth repeating.

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