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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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The book had a huge impact on my general understanding of graphic design being much more than doing beautiful, on-trend, zeitgeist designs. Rather being a discipline where you must strive to transform (raw) data into real decodeable information (on many levels) and aiding the user in understanding through well-thought human-centered communication. Sculpting in zeros and ones (14)
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