Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

paintings appear timeless. His typography was clean and crisp, a marriage
of classical and modern approaches. A progenitor of information design, he
virtually invented the modern time line, giving the reader textual and visual
information in parallel strips. He further focused on key pieces of visual
information through frequent scale changes and juxtapositions. The
amazing thing about this book is that if the type were removed, it would
reveal a perfect visual narrative.