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Information design isn't just a textual exercise. Today it's a basic component
of all good design.
By Paul Makovsky
July 2002
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Photo by Courtesy Sutnar estate
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It used to be that designing information was strictly the concern of
mathematicians like Claude Shannon, who published his groundbreaking
paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in 1948. But graphic
designer Ladislav Sutnar and architect Knud Lönberg-Holm--authors of the
seminal Catalog Design Progress (right), a 1950 book on information
design--were some of the earliest pioneers in the field. Today information
design is one of the building blocks for all good design. Information
design is all around us, from the typefaces we use to send e-mails to
the automatic electronic faucets that work by detecting our hands. The
products and prototypes (and even one event) on these pages are just the
tip of the iceberg.
Offsite:
Fontshop, (888) 333-6687, www.fontshop.com;
Cassina, (631) 423-4560, www.cassinausa.com; Fossil, (800) 449-3056, www.fossil.com;
Nienkämper, (800) 668-9318, www.nienkamper.com; Delta Faucet Company,
(800) 345-DELTA, www.deltafaucet.com; Sony Robot, (888) 917-7669, www.us.aibo.com;
Doors of Perception, www.doorsofperception.com; David Edward, (410) 242-2222;
DeCorp, (866) 412-9901, www.decorp.com; Catalogue Design Progress
by Ladislav Sutnar and Knud Lönberg-Holm is unfortunately out of print.
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