The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledgeis a compendium of circular infographics and designs created throughout centuries.
Though you may not bring in it , humanity is obsess with circles . “ Used to play a spacious range of ideas and phenomenon pertaining to almost every demesne of knowledge , the set [ has become ] a worldwide metaphor embraced by near every civilization that has ever survive , ” info designerManuel Limaexplains in his late book , .
Lima — whose last book , , explored the world of tree diagram — use more than 300 example , photos , and infographics dating from present day all the way back to the tenth hundred to show just how omnipresent this simple configuration is in design , and just how long human beings have been bewitch by it . If you look , you may see the circular form almost everywhere , he indite , “ … from the township and urban areas we have ramp up over the centuries to the menage articles and tools we have designed to the written signs and symbols we have make to communicate with each other . ”
Take a look at some of the architectural , aesthetic , cartographic , and data visualization examples Lima highlights in the record :
1. DOME OF THE BASILICA OF SUPERGA, TURIN, ITALY
Humans have been build in rotary shapes for millenary . This particular basilica dome was built between 1717 and 1731 .
2. COMPACT MUON SOLENOID, LARGE HADRON COLLIDER, CESSY, FRANCE, 2008
" [ Mexican valium ] became a chief head rule of human culture , emulated and reinvented in art , faith , language , technology , architecture , ism , and science , " Lima writes . Compare the design of the Large Hadron Collider ’s Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector with the Basilica of Superga ’s domed stadium , work up centuries apart .
3. ANDREW KUO: MY WHEEL OF WORRY, 2010
In 2010 , creative person Andrew Kuo created this radiate chart to exemplify the personal thoughts that plague him . The outer ring represents the thought he has while scratching a drawing ticket ; the middle ring , the matter he thinks about while looking at his citation card statement ; and the innermost ring , the topics that he worries about while trying to fall asleep . Each of the 24 thoughts is assign a particular gloss , as detailed in the lean at the bottom of the chart .
4. LOLA MIGAS AND RYAN DIAZ, CHROMAPOEMS: I HAVE A DREAM, 2010
This diagram represents Martin Luther King Jr. ’s “ I Have a Dream ” speech . Every block of color is a Logos , and every hoop a paragraph . It come from " Chromapoems " , an infographic serial that analyse the language used in dissimilar examples of poetry and prose .
5. JAEHO LEE, DONGJIN KIM, JAEJUNE PARK, AND KYUNGWON LEE, FLOW CIRCLE: CIRCULAR VISUALIZATION OF WIKI REVISION HISTORY, 2013
These architect used Flow Circle — a software system tool they developed to visualize how Wikipedia pages shift over multiple edits — to explore how the page for “ gun politics ” has vary over time . The diagram is free-base on screenshots of the Sir Frederick Handley Page over clip , trace human relationship between the generator ( list along the stunned edge ) and their edits . The original version isinteractive , so you may scroll through the school text of the Wikipedia page and select the colors within the image to highlight the specific words that were added or subtracted in that edit .
6. VALERIO PELLEGRINI, GIORGIO CAVIGLIA, GIORGIO UBOLDI, AND MICHELE MAURI (DENSITYDESIGN): CHARLES DICKENS, 2012
This infographic maps the linguistics in the work of Charles Dickens — specificallyOliver Twist , A Christmas Carol , David Copperfield , Great Expectations , andLittle Dorrit — in their Italian edition . The public figure of the book line the outer boundary of the lap , with little bubbles inside representing sure word . The words are laid out so that the more that they ’re used in a special book , the closer the house of cards appear to that work along the rophy . The size of it of the bubble represents how often that word is used in all of the Holy Writ , and the system of weights of the short letter is define by how often the affiliated word appear together in a sentence .
7. JI SOO HAN AND PAUL ORNSBY: SITUATIONIST DRAWING DEVICE, 2010
TheSituationist Drawing Deviceis a machine worn like a backpack that tracks the movements of the wearer . design toreorient the user ’s perception , refractors hang in front of the machine to contort your imagination , reversing the images see by your unexpended and right oculus . During the dizzying experience , the car records your movements with a seismograph .
8. PIER GUSTAFSON: 21 LEE STREET AND ENVIRONS, 2009
Calligrapher and artist Pier Gustafson used pen and ink to create this intricate bird ’s eye eyeshot that centre on a specific house—21 Lee Street — in Cambridge , Massachusetts . If you appear closely , you’re able to see intricate detail like a work party squad on the Charles River and a abode run hit flying out of Fenway Park .
The Book of Circles : Visualizing Spheres of Knowledgecomes out on May 2 . you could pre - place it onAmazonfor $ 25 .
All images courtesy Princeton Architectural Press
