The Art of Self-Publishing - There's No Bureaucracy

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The market for landscape abstracts, landscape art is like the market for Canadian experimental poetry. Richard Sarah gets a few hundred maybe 500 square feet in front of the building laid out by an architect and they say that's where you're going to put your piece. And so it's just like in self-publishing my books or have complete control. There's no bureaucracy. I've been able to pay for all the sculpture stuff.I do big landscape pieces. It's not a big market, which is actually good because I'm free of pitching to rich people about why they should do it. These have become bizarre in the last 15, 20 years with the deputy assistant provosts and

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too much thought into it, but Edward Tufte has done an enormous amount to change that. Beginning with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and continuing to his new book Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth, Tufte’s works have shaped how we think about charts, graphs, and other forms of presenting data. We talk about information, design, and how thinking about data reflects how we think about the world.

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Edward Tufte received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been a professor of public affairs at Princeton and of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, where he is currently emeritus professor. He is the founder and owner of Graphics Press, and his books have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. He is an active artist and sculptor, as well as a touring lecturer.

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