The work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press

Graphics Press LLC  P.O. Box 430  Cheshire, CT 06410  800 822-2454

Hogpen Hill Farms: ET's Landscape Sculpture Park

Hogpen Hill Farms is a 234-acre tree farm + landscape sculpture park with 100 ET artworks in Litchfield County in northwest Connecticut.

We will often be open from May to October 2024, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Information, Dates, Tickets.

(Please do not come on days when the park is closed. There is no access, the gates are closed.)

"It is wild, whimsical, grand and incredibly beautiful, with sculptures ranging from stainless steel surfaces reflecting every nuance of light, to lacy stone walls and silent boulder megaliths."   Michele McDonald, Boston Globe

"Hogpen Hill Farms is magical, a joy."  Lonely Planet, 2024

"Each of the works transforms the landscape, see these amazing artworks up close."   Atlas Obscura

"North America's best sculpture park: Edward Tufte's Hogpen Hill Farms"   Philip Greenspun

Analyzing/Presenting Data/Information:
An online video course taught by Edward Tufte

The online video course is open for sign-ups.

Topics covered in this one-day online course include:

Fundamental data analysis/design strategies: diagrams, data visualizations, maps, images, text, tables, videos, small multiples, sparklines, medical interfaces, sentences and paragraphs. Future of information displays: 4K, 6K video-maps and stop-action moving in time.

Practical real examples: medicine, business and finance, NASA, medical research, science and engineering, and a 40-page chapter from Seeing with Fresh Eyes on data analysis when the truth matters.

How to make meetings smarter and shorter - teaching, very large meetings, medical appointments, hearings, small groups making decisions. How to improve both the content and credibility of presentations.

Spectatorship: How to be a smart consumer of presentations, assessing their credibility and content.

323,000 people from 1994 to 2020 attended continuously changing live versions of the ET course Presenting Data and Information. But now we have an online course video. This course can be viewed anytime, and students receive all 5 ET books in advance by mail - for study hall and reading during the course. The online video is closely keyed to the books, with short reading throughout the course.

Edward Tufte teaches the entire course.

Each student receives all five ET books on information design:

"One visionary day.... the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays." WIRED   "The Leonardo da Vinci of data." THE NEW YORK TIMES   "The Galileo of graphics." BLOOMBERG

Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Bloomberg as the "Galileo of graphics." He is now completing a book Meaning, Space, Models, Data, Truth, and constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern Gallery/Studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms.

Inge Druckrey's new book
Modern Pioneers in Typography and Design:
Anna Simons, Edward Johnston,
Rudolf von Larisch, F. H. Ehmcke

In the early 1900s, good typefaces were scarce, books poorly crafted and tasteless, type design a dead end, formal handwriting disconnected from origins of broad-edged pens and brushes, tools that shaped Roman letterforms for 2000 years.??

Then four modern pioneers of design and typography created new modern typefaces, fresh interest in letterforms, beginnings of modernism. This book traces the far-reaching influence of these artists in Europe and the United States. This book provides discoveries and insights to the historical achievements in graphic design and typography.

Phone orders only, 1-800-822-2454, M-F 9am - 5pm EST

"This book celebrates the work of four great teachers of calligraphy and lettering in the first half of the twentieth century and their influence on generations of students. Their pioneering studies of historical manuscript hands and the tools used to write stimulated a revival of calligraphy, ornamental lettering, and design of printing types and books. The next best thing to having taken a class from Edward Johnston, Anna Simons, Rudolf von Larisch, F. H. Ehmcke would be to read this inspiring book and revel in its beautiful illustrations."   Matthew Carter, CBE, MacArthur Fellow, type designer and 'the most??widely read person in the world' considering the amount of text set in his??fonts Verdana, Georgia, Tahoma, Bell Centennial, Galliard...

"Inge Druckrey is the only person who could have written this important book. There are many places where I was so caught up in her comments and conclusions that I forgot I was supposed to be commenting! The illustrations are magnificent. This is a major contribution to the lettering arts."  Kris Holmes, calligrapher, type designer, teacher, and President of??Bigelow & Holmes, a typeface design studio. With Charles Bigelow,??Kris Holmes designed more than 100 digital typefaces - Lucida Grande??(for Apple OS X), Wingdings, Monaco, Geneva, TeX User Group...

Art: ET Notebooks Hogpen Hill Farms artworks Continuous silent megaliths: structures of unknown significance The Twigs: Landscape artworks made from steel and air Airstream Interplanetary Explorer Sentences off the Grid Geese taking flight (300 frames/second) Magritte's Smile (giant fish) Flowing Steel Confections Bouquet sculptures Stainless steel engravings Artful Feynman Diagrams Philosophical Diamond Signs Bookprints: 16 new prints Rocket Science #1 (Spacecraft) Rocket Science #2 (Lunar Lander) Ironstone artworks, torqued steel Image data quilts: our new website Beautiful Evidence chronicles Tong Bird of Paradise Drawing Center show: ET art Masks Quartet, casting, 2011 Dogs+art: Whose hermeneutic? Designing a museum garden Alley Art Sculpture forgings (blacksmith work) Stonespace and Airspace = Lacy Stone Walls Hogpen Hill Farms LLC: Architectural evergreens and ornamental grasses Millstone sculpture, 1-8 Binterview with ET Airspaces sculpture Ace and Porta do multimedia Buddha with Bird Nest: sculpture Flame Theater Seeing Around: new ET essay Horizons, vistas, and skylines Art Theorists Speak Out Cartoonishly Walking maps (and minimizing the visual interface) Porta and the Birds (300 frames/second) Table sculptures Hogpen Hill #1 landscape sculpture Skewed Machine sculpture Sheep visit landscape sculpture 12 reviews, ET art exhibits Babar's dream (and framing books) Spring Arcs, landscape artwork Sculpture theory and practice Dog sculptures Bird Series ZZ Smile (Zerlina's Smile) sculpture Dear Leader sculpture

Science: ET Notebooks Overlapping data graphics Sentences off the Grid Sparkline theory and practice Lousy PowerPoint: Fault of users? Artful Feynman Diagrams Chartjunk Lists: design and construction, by Edward Tufte iPhone interface design Maps moving in time: a standard of excellence for data displays Practical advice for medical patients PowerPoint does rocket science + better techniques for technical reports Beautiful Evidence chronicles Advice for effective analytical reasoning Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics Making better inferences from statistical graphics Edward Tufte Image data quilts: our new website Cancer survival rates: tables, graphs Feynman-Tufte Principle Table and timetable design and typography Dashboards: decision displays Field color charts: salmon, leaf, dog . . . Binterview with ET Feynman,"Nature cannot be fooled" Saturn images in Galileo's text Pioneer space plaque Bookprints: 16 new prints Geese taking flight (300 frames/second) Slopegraphs for comparing gradients: Slopegraph theory and practice The meaning of "pessimal" Corrupt presentation techniques Walking maps (and minimizing the visual interface) London Underground maps Taking logarithms in statistical data Goldberg and Design Variations Links, networks, causal diagrams Scaling and scale models Shadows Airstream Interplanetary Explorer Analytical design and human factors Instructions at the point of need Mapped pictures: image annotation Patient-doctor data exchange Grand truths about human behavior Touchscreens have no hand Public concerts: music always too loud? Project management (Gantt) graphics Moderating forums: what's smart, not new Wavefields: HD video data-graphics The magical number 7, plus/minus 2 Microsoft CEO wants ET methods, not PowerPoint! Presentation Metaphors: Conway's Law Plagiarism in PP presentations Graphical timetables Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870) Book design: advice and examples Commencements: talks, degrees Dappled light Edge Fluting Airport maps and runway incursions Sparkline > Steve Jobs > Andy Warhol in Google results Fudged photos: Mars, OJ, stem-cells . . . Minard's data sources Visual notation of bird songs ET book - Data Analysis for Policy Fitting models to data Predictions and projections: some issues of research design Two-variable linear regression Fitting simple multivariate models