Peter Gabor is a French graphic designer, corporate identity consultant, lecturer, and teacher of typography and graphic arts. He’s the founder and manager of Typogabor, one of the most famous shops for typesetting in Paris between 73′ and 93′. Here Gabor takes a look inside one of his favorite books, Diagram Graphics, by Kazuo Abe and Fumihiko Nishioka — originally published in 1992 — to praise the design of the images, and to focus on the quality of the infographics and their representation.
Gabor views infographics as needing what he refers to as “structuralism,” or the quality of pattern and their representation. When visualizing data, the more aesthetically appealing the graphic looks, the better the information comes across to the reader. Essentially, Gabor refers to great graphics as having the art of rhythm and the sound of poetic expression. When done correctly — like in Diagram Graphics — the graphic structure allows us to read the unreadable and decode the hidden subliminal messages. With the interactivity of html, javascript and 3D, the infographics of the future will improve beyond Gabor’s wildest dreams.
