Stephen Few in his Blog ‘Visual Business Intelligence’ is enthusiastic about a new book dealing with information visualisation: ‘At Last, a Scientific Approach to Infographics‘.
The book written by Connie Malamed: Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand,
Rockport Publishers, Inc., 2009.
This is indeed a great book. Our library bought it and I can recommend it highly.
Check out this three dimensional graph, depicting the price of consumer electronic goods versus their market penetration over time. It was published in Wired magazine and is featured in the book:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/magazine/test2007/st_infoporn