Feature: Information design
Crashing through the type
Time magazine infographics by Nigel Holmes 1970s
Branches and roots
John L. Walters on the break-ups and tearful reunions of Rock Family Trees
Life’s little detours
Eric Heiman salutes the ‘Edward Hopper of design and comic art’
Taught from a new angle
Oliver Byrne’s element of Euclid 1847
Tool-shop for a counterculture
Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors for the human body.
Lady with the diagram
Florence Nightingale on Crimean War mortality, 1858
Head Trip
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure
A circle that moved the earth
Copernicus’s diagram of the planets 1543
Pin point
Jack Schulze praises the ‘US space programme’ of mapping