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In Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, more than fifty of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a rare glimpse of their creative processes.

We are living in a golden age of data visualization, in which designers are responding to the information overload of our digital era with astonishing feats of visual thinking.

Using a wide variety of techniques, they transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and memorable infographics. In recent years, books and websites have been collecting the field's best. While stimulating, these finished projects offer little insight into how visual solutions were reached, making them of limited use to designers wanting to produce work of their own.

In Infographics Designers' Sketchbooks, more than fifty of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a rare glimpse of their creative processes.

Emphasizing idea-generating methods—from doodles and drawings to three-dimensional and digital mock-ups—this revelatory collection is the first to go inside designers' studios to reveal the art and craft behind infographic design. —

Organized alphabetically by designer, Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks combines both breadth and depth in 352-pages. The topics span range from politics to science to pop culture to finance.

The book excels at showing how essentially dry, complex scientific information is brought to life by storybook-like infographic imagery embedded with raw data. Still, however polished the final product is and whatever data it represents, the common theme is a good old-fashioned sketch at the start.


It is incredibly interesting to go behind the scenes of a designer’s work process, through their sketches.

Author Steven Heller is the cochair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at NY's School of Visual Arts. He is the author of many books, including Graphic, Typography Sketchbooks, Scripts, and Shadow Type.

Co-author Rick Landers is founding partner and co-creative director of graphic design studio Landers Miller Design.

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 The Design Surgery  

The London design agency, Design Surgery has completed a series of designs for reports that provide companies and organisations with an effective, informative and powerful communications platform for Raconteur Media.

This series of urban cityscapes, landscapes and conceptual cover illustrations were made by The Design Surgery for special interest media company Raconteur and The Times newspaper.

Each cover visualizes a detailed scene to demonstrate the themes covered throughout the report. The Design Surgery's use of detail, curves and simplified shapes build a cohesive brand image for Raconteur Media.

Illustrated and designed by London design agency, these reports provides companies and organisations with an effective, informative and powerful communications platform that allows them to directly reach their core audience. Raconteur brings together content and sponsors in a credible package of quality journalism and cutting-edge design.

The Design Sugery is a creative agency that thrives on contemporary design. "We are graphical surgeons, passionate problem solvers, emotionally and ethically driven," states their website.

The company prides itself on their in-depth knowledge of visual communication, brand awareness and targeted design. "We examine the boundaries of our clients requirements, revealing a brand's purpose and personality. By identifying the role in which a brand should play, we are able to grasp an accurate understanding of the links between business, brand and consumer."