Information Design (Paperback, Revised)

The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important-it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse. The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasive-and persuasive-field. Contributors Elizabeth Andersen, Judy Anderson, Simon Birrell, Mike Cooley, Brenda Dervin, Jim Gasperini, Yvonne M. Hansen, Steve Holtzman, Robert E. Horn, Robert Jacobson, John Krygier, Sheryl Macy, Romedi Passini, Jef Raskin, Chandler Screven, Nathan Shedroff, Hal Thwaites, Roger Whitehouse

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The MIT Press
Release date:	August 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Robert Jacobson
Foreword by:	Richard Saul Wurman
Dimensions:	229 x 203 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	373
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-60035-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Graphic design Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Communications engineering / telecommunications > General
LSN:	0-262-60035-8
Barcode:	9780262600354

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