Design cannot rescue failed content.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.