Long called the Galileo of graphics, Edward Tufte is on the lecture circuit again (seems to happen eachspring and run through the summer). He's the iconoclast of analytical design -- inevitably, he finds the sublime in the piles of overly designed charts, graphs and tables that fill our world.
Here's a typically wonderful Tufte statement: "Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information."
But my personal favorite quip from him (told to me several years ago while I was still working on the Infoporn pages in Wired magazine): "What you guys do to information is pornographic." I don't think he meant it as a compliment....
Anyway, here's a nice catch-up story about Tufte out of Stanford.
Oh, I also love that he moderates a Q&A forum on his website.
[Image via Stanford.]
