Silver Cross Hospital My Chart

But Tufte’s rational, almost severe minimalism is only one side of the story. The very act of creating or engaging with a comparison chart is an exercise in critical thinking. It was in a second-year graphic design course, and the project was to create a multi-page product brochure for a fictional company. They are organized into categories and sub-genres, which function as the aisles of the store. It is the act of making the unconscious conscious, of examining the invisible blueprints that guide our reactions, and of deciding, with intention, which lines are worth tracing and which new paths we need to draw for ourselves. His argument is that every single drop of ink on a page should have a reason for being there, and that reason should be to communicate data.