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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.

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.

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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.

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

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To fully answer your question I‘d need to re-read it completely. But from memory and going over the contents again, it’s still relevant and mostly fundamental knowledge, like perception, human-centered design, wayfinding and the like. Sure some internet and media references and examples are anachronistic after 25 years.

Interesting - a time capsule theory book? Or much still relevant, would you say on the practical side of things?

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