Tafte writes,"The principles of analytical design are universal - like mathematics, the laws of Nature, the deep structure of language - and are not tied to any particular language, culture, style , century, gender, or technology of informtion display. As a result, our examples are widely distributed in space and time: the illustrations come from 14 centuries, 16 countries, (Italy and France, especially) 3 planets, and the innumerable stars. From the illustrations, it is difficult to idnetify what place or time this book is from, which is the point."Ad Reinhardt's "How to Look at Modern Art in America" and Mark Lombardi's "Global Networks" depicted in part in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Robert Hobbs. Mark Lombardi's drawings create visual narratives of the way money flows in our post-imperial, transnational economy: from corporations to political organizations, from individuals to various ad hoc groups, most of them acting outside of and transcending national boundaries. Using graphite and colored pencil, and information culled from newspaper accounts, TV, and other sources in the public domain, Lombardi maps the economic underpinnings of our global society. One of the drawings depicted in the catalogue is entitled Meyer Lansky's Financial Network 1960-78. Lansky was a patient of Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Up from Flatland by Phil Patton reviews the works of information designer Edward Tufte. His books "The Visual Display of Quartitative Information" and "Envisioning Information" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edward R. Tufte's book "Envisioning Information," the subject of the review, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the introduction, Tufte characterizes his three books on information design as follows. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers, i.e., depicting data and statistics. Envisioning Information is about pictures of nouns and visual strategies for design. Visual Explanations is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, of process and dynamics, of causes and effects, of explanation and narrative. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.