CHART: Designing Creative Data Visualizations from Charts to Art

by Nadieh Bremer

CHART is a guide to unleashing creativity in data visualization. It takes you on a journey along the spectrum from an ordinary chart to data art, packed with ways to bring more creativity into any visualization. It will help to make your visuals more compelling and memorable, long after the numbers have been crunched.

Drawing from over a decade of experience, the author shares thirteen hands-on, tool-agnostic lessons, each filled with actionable insights and unique perspectives. Between these core lessons, you’ll find tips, mini-chapters, and dozens of real-world examples from both client and personal projects. The book also includes exclusive glimpses into early sketches, works-in-progress, and in-depth design stories that reveal how creativity in data is often a messy, non-linear, but ultimately rewarding process.

Designing Creative Data Visualization from Charts to Art is designed for journalists, data analysts, business professionals, and newcomers alike, these lessons empower readers to push beyond the default. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and inspiration to transform typical charts and graphs into visuals that not only inform but also captivate and connect with your audience. Find more information This book invites you to break the mold and think outside the chart.

Genres: Design, Nonfiction

284 pages, Hardcover

Published June 5, 2025

Reviews

[Kenneth van Wanrooij · Rating 5 out of 5]

“ChArt” is an inspiring blend of Nadieh’s professional journey with glimpses into her personal story, showing how she evolved from visualizing data to creating data-driven art.

Throughout the book, she offers practical insights that anyone working with data can - and in my opinion, should - apply, while keeping it refreshingly real by sharing the struggles and missteps behind the scenes.

Whether you’re after hands-on tips, creative inspiration, or simply something beautiful to show on your coffee table, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in the visual side of data

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really appreciated how the book is specific to Nadieh's process and approach towards data viz, rather than some broad, generic data viz "how-to" (not that there's anything wrong with those books--they're necessary too!). It makes it a more compelling and illuminating read getting to see how she works. Nadieh's such an incredibly talented designer and even just thumbing through the book to see images of her projects is really awe-inspiring.