But Charles Minard was full of innovative visualizations. Charles Minard pioneered several thematic mapping techniques. The maps in this image depict the origin and amount of cotton imported into ...

Charles Minard was not a designer by trade, or at least not the kind of artsy mind we usually think of as great creative minds. Minard was a civil engineer who spent his career teaching at France ...

For a time, the Brooklyn-born Minard appeared to be the heir apparent as editor of Forbes, sources recalled. He was managing editor of Forbes from July 1989 until founding Forbes Global in Sept. 1997.