These are various examples of illustrations from text books created by Edward Tufte. The illustrations in these books are examples of visual information and referances explained with great amounts of writing.
When I think of positive examples of visual text books; I look for clear illustrations that are easy to adapt to and give clear and explanitive information and obviously ones that are easy to revise in my head in order to remember certain information that the illustrations are purposely needed to communicate with readers.
Personally I am glad that an illustrator working with text books is on this list; as I feel that the subject of illustration for educational purposes is something I have never considered so personally. When I judge illustrations or adverts from books, magazines and posters; I always explore how the styles and techniques reflect the subjects in the best possible way and also how eye catching they are; especially within graphic design.
But I have never considered how illustration techniques are considered in educational text books. Typically as learners we do not judge the quality and skill of the illustrations in text books; we are only concerned about the information in the pictures and how we learn from these about various subjects and we would feel unsatisfied not with the style of the image; but if we could not understand or learn from them. I feel that this subject of illustration requires almost perfect accuracy and research because illustrators would need to insure that all the information in the pictures is academically correct and ofcourse presentable for a targeted audience.
Images obtained from: www.edwardtufte.com
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