Designers need to make information accessible and available to everyone - but how do they arrive at such elegant and useful solutions to complicated problems? Covering a broad spectrum of material, from transportation systems and body-imaging maps to personal information-manager (pim) interfaces and three-dimensional rendering, this book presents an international selection of work that makes our world function smoothly, including designs by such masters as Erik Spiekermann of MetaDesign in Germany, Richard Saul Wurman in the US and Hiroyuki Kimura of Tube Design in Japan. Organized by type, each project includes detailed commentary on how the design came to be, how it responded to the client's needs and why it works. Within each chapter are detailed case studies that examine a single project in depth, from the client's initial request to the finished product.
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In a slick book destined to grace digerati coffee tables around the world, Peter Wildbur and Michael Burke look at the best on graphical design, from software to signage. [Three stars out of four]. -- Time Digital, 2 November 1998
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
put your money elsewhere,
By reneereader (rockville, md USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design (Paperback)
At first glance, this book looked exciting. However, once I started to (try to) read it, I found this book, itself, to be poorly designed. Emphasis seemed to be on slick, glossy pages rather than on content--unfortunate, because my initial appraisal had been, "Great! Full color examples". Sadly, it didn't live up to my expectations. There are better books out there. Over all, worth a glance but not a purchase unless you are just building a group library of information graphics books. I also agree with another reviewer who felt that some of the example designs were not very good.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
useful, but not a classic,
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This review is from: Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design (Hardcover)
Helpful, interesting, although not a classic in the same way that, say, Tufte's Envisioning Information is. For every piece of good design in this book, there's another piece which strikes me as quite bad (the Internet map sites in particular suffer from jumbled, cluttered, confusing interfaces). But this book is still a valuable resource for people interested in this kind of stuff.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of good examples,
By A Customer
This review is from: Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design (Paperback)
An excellent book with lots of nice color photos and diagrams. Shows and talks about examples and solutions for informing travellers, explaining how things work, controlling input, interfacing with the screen, exploring the 3-d interface, and map systems.
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