Following on from Jonathan's great mindmap templates and Christien's example below, I thought I'd post the classic chart Alfred Barr produced in 1936 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on The Development of Abstract Art. The suggestion of derivation through the use of arrows is something that closely relates to our own discussions about causality, teleology and history. The rationality implied here is in contrast to the Great Bear (1992), Simon Patterson's rather more perplexing diagram of thinkers, writers and other stars.
(See http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/patterson.htm)
The Alfred Barr diagram is the subject of a close reading by Edward Tufte, emeritus professor at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. In his analysis, there are also references to further visual representations of information, including to great examples by Charles Eames and a link to a clear and concise account of Richard Feynman's diagrams (at American Scientist Online).
Diagrammatic representations are explored in art, architecture, design and science and it is no surprise that the Bauhaus, aiming to bring together all those disciplines, published its 1922 curriculum as one.
(See http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/journal/vol7/papers/kvan/pg_sec4.html)
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