Love him or hate him, you can't deny his prolific presence in information design. Anyone who's a fan of thoughtful, insightful graphics knows of Edward Tufte. His first three books — books I'm sure I've mentioned here countless times — have become so standard that saying one should own them has become cliche. Everybody from the 16-year-old web designer down the road to the 60-year-old book designer in the woods has them.

Nine years in the making, his highly anticipated Beautiful Evidence is just about done.

While not popping out until April, us poor folk can start pinching pennies to save up for it. It must be nice to know you can probably push out a 10,000-copy print run and sell out almost immediately!