Paul Kahn
Dynamic Diagrams
Some Useful Sources
- Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933
- "The map is not the territory"
- Gregory Bateson, "Form, Substance and Difference" in Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972
- "What is it in the territory that gets onto the map?… What gets onto the map, in fact, is difference, be it a difference in altitude, a difference in vegetation, a difference in population structure, difference in surface, or whatever. Differences are the things that get onto the map"
- Jacques Bertin, Semiology of Graphics, 1983
- Seven retinal variables can be used to encode visual contrast: size, value, hue, orientation, texture, shape, and position.
- Alan Hodkiss, Understanding Maps, A systematic history of their use and development, 1980
- An excellent British survey of mapmaking.
- P.D.A. Harvey, The History of Topographical Maps, Symbols, Pictures and Surveys, 1981
- Another excellent British survey of mapmaking.
- Bernard Rouleau (ed.), Le Plan de Paris de Louis Bretez dit Plan de Turgot, Nördlingen: Verlag Dr. Alfons Uhl, 1989
- A full-scale reproduction with commentary of the 18th century plan of Paris.
- Ken Garland, Mr. Beck's Underground Map, Middlesex: Capital Transport Publishing, 1994
- A history of how Henry C. Beck (Harry to his friends) developed his transportation diagram of the London Underground, from concept to first diagram to later revisions.
- Douglas Rose, The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History, sixth edition, London: Douglas Rose, 1994
- A history of all the stations of the London Underground in the form of a fold-out annotated diagram.
- Michael and Susan Southworth, Maps, A Visual Survey and Design Guide, Boston: New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown and Company, 1982
- Lavishly illustrated survey of mapping techniques from a visual, rather than a cartographic, point of view.
- Richard Saul Wurman (Peter Bradford, editor), Information Architecture, 1996
- An anthology of work by 12 contemporary designers engaged in what Wurman has called "information architecture" including work by Lenk & Kahn, Clement Mok, David McCauley
