Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions

Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions

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  • Create Date:2022-03-01 04:16:39
  • Update Date:2025-09-23
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  • Author:David McCandless
  • ISBN:0062188240
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Summary

In this sequel to bestselling The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless reveals unexpected—and much needed—positive developments from around the world。


David McCandless creates simple, elegant ways to see and understand complex, abstract, and often obscured information important to our lives。 A specialist in infographics。 McCandless cuts through the noise of data overload, creating visually stunning displays that not only make facts comprehensive, but illuminates their connections and adds context, making information meaningful in beautiful and entertaining way。Designed in David McCandless’s signature style。 The Visual Miscellaneum of Good News focuses on fascinating positive developments at a time when the world has never seemed more dangerous and unpredictable。 McCandless draws from philosophy, spirituality, ecology, society, technology, history, science, economics, and pop culture, to reveal positive trends and developments, from the invention of a breakthrough device that uses ocean forces to clean plastic from the world’s seas, to a new method of converting donated blood to the crucial “O” negative type that can be used universally。

In cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, David McCandless creatively visualizes unexpected and compelling relationships between diverse data sets。 Among his surprising findings: almost 250 US cities have remained in the Paris Accord; there are more female CEOs in the world than ever before; a new vaccine has been developed to help protect bees; Zika is disappearing from the Americas。

At a time when we are besieged by disturbing events, The Visual Miscellaneum of Good News is the antidote to brighten the darkest day—a shot of positivity and good cheer that will lift the spirts and provide sorely needed hope about our world in a way never before seen。

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Reviews

Barbara

This is my third David McCandless book and it was top of my 'Christmas list' for 2021。 Luckily, my sister took the hint and bought it for me。 Beautiful News is McC's antidote to COVID-19 and worldwide bad news - a book filled to bursting with the good stuff that's happening here, there and everywhere。 I can picture him home-working and trying his hardest to find the best things in our world with which to reassure us that it's not all death and destruction。 In my opinion, this book sacrifices cre This is my third David McCandless book and it was top of my 'Christmas list' for 2021。 Luckily, my sister took the hint and bought it for me。 Beautiful News is McC's antidote to COVID-19 and worldwide bad news - a book filled to bursting with the good stuff that's happening here, there and everywhere。 I can picture him home-working and trying his hardest to find the best things in our world with which to reassure us that it's not all death and destruction。 In my opinion, this book sacrifices creativity for delivering a strong message -especially a strong environmental message。 I'm happy with that message, but - in contrast to his previous books Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful - I don't find the structure of the infographics to be as inspiring。 Too many pagers have way too many words。 Too many graphics are a bit 'meh'。 There are relatively few that rock me back on my heels or pull a strong "Wow" from my mouth。 The message seems to have been put ahead of the imagery and that's a very big shame。 I also felt that some of the axes on charts were not explained enough to make it clear exactly what was being said and some pages seemed to shove two handfuls of assorted and not completely related topics onto a double-spread。 It's fantastic that he found so much good news。 It's a shame it got shoved together with less thought or creativity than his previous books。My favourite chart - and I think you can also find it on the Information is Beautiful website - is the world map which shows for each country in the world, something positive for which they are #1。 If I'm reading it correctly, the country with the most female MPs is now Rwanda。 Who knew? The UK wins on 'offshore wind' (I'm guessing the use of it for power, not just the windiest place) and the USA has the most generous donors to charity。 I'm pretty sure I've seen an earlier version of this map where the US 'won' at locking up their citizens in prison so it's a very different perspective when you look for the good in nations。 There is something in this book to interest everybody。 It's the kind you'd leave in the downstairs loo for entertaining reading (though you might start to worry if people don't come out for a long time)。 I applaud the sentiment but find some of the graphics a tad disappointing。 This would be a 3。5 stars for me, rounded up to 4。 If I'd not experienced the earlier books, it might be more。 。。。more

Razan

Purchased the Kindle version and couldn't zoom in so could barely read some of smaller print (not user friendly)。 Found some of the visualisations a bit lazy e。g。 unrelated content within a single dashboard or lack of colour coordination。 Could have been shorter & more impactful imo。Great idea, poor execution。 Purchased the Kindle version and couldn't zoom in so could barely read some of smaller print (not user friendly)。 Found some of the visualisations a bit lazy e。g。 unrelated content within a single dashboard or lack of colour coordination。 Could have been shorter & more impactful imo。Great idea, poor execution。 。。。more

Elisa

Found great that this book give readers a chance to explore and digest all those amazing things in all areas of life that have been happening around us。 But are not as celebrated may be due to complexity for the naked eye to notice or for the news constant fixation on negativity。

Elliott Moore

Beautiful book filled uplifting and well presented charts。 Some liberties taken with breaking the axis etc。 in order to present the specific story nicely across 1 or 2 pages, which is unfortunate but not ill-intentioned。