According to its website, Visual Literacy is an “e-learning site focused on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations.”

If this sounds suspiciously like managerial Dilbert-speak, you’re not alone. But there is interesting content there, as evidenced by the wonderfully bizarre “Periodic Table of Visualization Methods“. At first glance, the table seems quirky and fundamentally tongue-in-cheek. But upon closer inspection, the massive amount of detail and serious tone point to
something far more complex. It’s a well-thought out example of one of the visualization methods listed, I’m sure (somewhere in Metaphor Visualization, I’d think.)

If you’re a designer, you owe it to yourself to spend some time with this odd chart.