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Manuel Lima
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Portuguese designer, author and lecturer specializing in information visualization and visual culture, known for books exploring the history and practice of data visualization.
Biography
Manuel Lima (born May 3, 1978) is a Portuguese designer, author and lecturer known for his work in information visualization and visual culture. His practice focuses on how graphic forms organize and communicate complex information, and he has investigated both historical and contemporary diagrammatic traditions, including the development and use of tree diagrams in visual thinking.
He is the author of four books translated into several languages. His publications include visual compendia that collect historical illustrations and contextual timelines tracing the evolution of diagrammatic forms. He lives in Lisbon with his wife and two daughters.
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Books by Manuel Lima
The book of trees
The Book of Trees surveys more than eight hundred years of the tree diagram, presenting roughly two hundred intricately detailed tree-diagram illustrations across subjects and a timeline of capsule biographies that trace the form from ancient Mesopotamia and medieval manuscripts to contemporary designers.