Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Bertin

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.

Jacques Bertin was a French cartographer and theorist, known from his book Semiologie Graphique, published in 1967. This monumental work, based on his experience as a cartographer and geographer, represents the first and widest intent to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization, with his most lasting contribution being his set of visual variables that can be used to construct map symbols and other graphical techniques one of then being the Bertin Projection, an innovative map projection type.

July 27, 1919 - May 3, 2010

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A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

Jacques Bertin

In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art criticism.

Jacques Bertin

[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

Jacques Bertin