It’s interesting to put our fascination with data visualization into historical perspective and present it like in the forma of a glossy art book.
The book, a platform for preserving these projects, offers a historical perspective on the evolution of our natural human instinct to visually organize information. These systems, setting up hierarchies of spirit, heritage and society (like the ancient ontologies the Tree of Life or Kaballah’s HaShem) have deep roots as methods for finding meaning while also incorporating our connections to one another. Read more about Visual Complexity.