A non-exhaustive list of books related to visuals, from techniques like sketchnoting, visual recording and/or facilitation, to data visualisation and infographics.
Sketchnotes / Visual recording / Graphic facilitation
- Creating Clarity: Transform Your Work with the Power of Visual Tools, by Holger Nils Pohl
- Myslografia, by Agata Baj (in Polish only)
- Visual collaboration, by Loa Baastrup and Ole Qvist-Sorensen
- The David Sibbet’s Visual series:
- Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change, by David Sibbet and Gisela Wendling
- Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, and Organization Change, by David Sibbet
- Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance, by David Sibbet
- Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity, by David Sibbet
- Lettering Journey: Fast. Functional. Fun! by Heather Leavitt Martinez, Avril Orloff, Guido Neuland
- The world of visual facilitation, by 50 co-authors from all around the globe
- Generative scribing, by Kelvy Bird
- Drawn Together Through Visual Practice, by Brandy Agerbeck, Kelvy Bird, Sam Bradd, Jennifer Shepherd and 23 other contributors < A MUST!
- Penser, Dessiner, Révéler !, par Etienne Appert
- UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen, by Martin Haussmann (part of the Bikablo series)
- Bikablo, the visual dictionaries by Neuland
- Graphic Recording – Live Illustrations for Meetings, Conferences and Workshops, by Anna Lena Schiller & Gestalten
- The Doodle Revolution, by Sunni Brown
- The Sketchnote Handbook , by Mike Rohde
- The Sketchnote Workbook, by Mike Rohde
- The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide, by Brandy Agerbeck
- Draw Your Big Idea, by Nora Herting, Heather Willems
- 100 + 1 Drawing Ideas: 100 + 1 Drawing Ideas for Sketchnoters and Doodler, by Mauro Toselli
- The xLontrax Theory of Sketchnote, by Mauro Toselli
- The Pop-up Pitch: The Two-Hour Creative Sprint to the Most Persuasive Presentation of Your Life, by Dan Roam
- The Back of the Napkin , by Dan Roam
- Unfolding the Napkin, by Dan Roam
- Blah, Blah, Blah: What to Do When Words Don’t Work, by Dan Roam
- Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms, by Alex Fowkes
- Stik, by Stik 🙂
- Drawing is Thinking, by Milton Glaser
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards
- Drawing on the Dominant Eye, by Betty Edwards
- Pencil me in, by Christina Wodtke
In the between
- Eye and Brain, The Psychology of Seeing, by Richard L. Gregory
- Liminal thinking, by Dave Gray
- The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts, by Marie Neurath
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, by Nancy Duarte
- Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design, by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel
- Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers, by Steven Heller, Lita Talarico
- Typography Sketchbooks, by Steven Heller, Talarico Lita
- A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm, by Denman W. Ross
- Creativity Sucks: And 30 Other Things I’ve Learned while Living a Weird, Amazing, Crazy, Creative Life, by Phil Hansen
Data Visualisation and infographics
- How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo
- Knowledge is beautiful and Information is Beautiful by David McCandless (IIB)
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
- Envisioning Information, by Edward Tufte
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, by Edward Tufte
- Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
- Infodesign : Le management visuel de l’information à l’heure du Big Data, de Yann Guilain
- The Grammar of Graphics, by Leland Wilkinson
- The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, by Alberto Cairo
- Storytelling with Data, by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic