The Library

Information Design, MIT Press, 1999
Edited by Robert Jacobson, foreword by Richard Saul Wurman.

A textbook about the newly emerging field of 'Information Design' at the turn of the millennium, covering theoretical foundations, practice and designing for information design.

With contributions by Nathan Shedroff, Steve Holtzman, Jef Raskin amm.

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nice! i had it on my list a couple of times but never ordered it :-) 100 $degen

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But be aware that it is mainly a text-only book, it’s not sketching a visual language for the field but discussing its theoretical concepts and fundamentals. User reactions on Amazon are also quite mixed (sure different expectations), but I remember to have learned important concepts from the book.

And yes 🤫 secretly sharing NSFW content disguised as a MIT Press book, therefore the black cover 🤪

that's why "In this book everything is a facade. [...]" 🤣