InfoD: Bookwatch (31)

      * InfoDesign Bookwatch *   (31)

        In this message:
        1) Design for impact (Eric Ericson en Johan Pihl)
        2) Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography
           (Robin Kinross)

        From the Bookshelf:
        1) Research into practice: experiments in development
           and information design. (R. Bullock, D. Gooch,
           M. Little and Kevin Mount)

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1)   TITLE: Design for impact

    AUTHORS: Eric Ericson en Johan Pihl

    SUMMARY: 'Design for Impact' looks at the development and
             design of airline safety cards, from the first cards
             in the 1930s through to the present day. At the
             beginning of civil transport aviation, there were
             no safety cards on planes: the number of passengers
             was very small and safety research was not very
             developed. As planes became bigger, crash analysis
             reports showed that it was necessary to explain to
             passengers what to do in case of emergency. During
             the 1960s, more complete safety measures were
             explained in separate safety booklets, then during
             the 1970s, cards became increasingly precise and
             efficient, and smaller airlines began to adopt them.
             Nowadays, every airline provides safety cards and
             their design is constantly evolving as new attempts
             are made to express safety information in an ever
             more comprehensible way

CONTENTS:
Preface
- Pre-war safety cards
- Post-war safety cards
- The jet age begins
- The Comet
- The Boeing 707
- The Douglas DC-8
- The Convair 880
- Next-generation jets
- The Concorde
- Ex-communist safety cards

Paperback, 176 pp
Price: USD 29.99 / GBP 25.00
Published: October 2002
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
ISBN: 1 85669 292 2


Webpages about this book:
http://www.designforimpact.com
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2)   TITLE: Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography

     AUTHOR: Robin Kinross

    SUMMARY: In this compilation Robin Kinross makes a case for
             typography as a matter of fine detail and subtle
             judgement, whose products concern all of us,
             everyday. Major themes are: the unsung virtues of
             editorial design and of information design, the fate
             of Modernism in the twentieth century, the work of
             dissident and critical Modernist designers, the
             contributions of emigr=E9 designers from Europe in the
             English-speaking world, the virtues of a socially-
             oriented design approach. He argues for a design that
             is of use in the world, and against the cult of
             design and the delusions of theory.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
- Elders, contemporaries:
- Marie Neurath
- Edward Wright
- F.H.K. Henrion
- Jock Kinneir
- Norman Potter
- Adrian Frutiger
- Ken Garland's writings
- Richard Hollis
- Karel Martens
- MetaDesign, Berlin
- Neville Brody
- The new Dutch telephone book
- LettError

Evaluations:
- What is a typeface?
- Large and small letters
- Black art
- Newspapers
- Road signs
- Objects of desire
- Letters of credit
- Two histories of lettering
- Eric Gill
- Herbert Read
- Jan Tschichold
- Fifty Penguin years
- Teige animator
- Adorno's Minima Moralia
- Judging a book by its material embodiment
- The book of Norman
- Adieu aesthetica
- Best books
- The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors
- The typography of indexes

Stages of the modern:
- Universal faces, ideal characters
- The Bauhaus again
- New typography in Britain after 1945
- Unjustified text and the zero hour
- Emigr=E9 graphic designers

Signs and readers:
- Semiotics and designing
- Notes after the text
- Fellow readers


Paperback, 392 pp
Price: GBP 20.00
Published: 2002
Publisher: Hyphen Press
ISBN: 0-906259-17-0

Webpages about this book:
http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/titles/unjustified_text/
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*  From the Bookshelf  * mentions books that were not recently
    published, but that we have missed on introduction.


1)   TITLE: Research into practice: experiments in development
             and information design.

    AUTHORS: Roger Bullock, Daniel Gooch, Michael Little and
             Kevin Mount

    SUMMARY: Methods of disseminating the findings of social care
             research have changed radically in recent years, but
             little is known about the effects of the process on
             policy and practice. This book focuses on research
             activities by analysing the various development and
             dissemination projects undertaken at Dartington
             during the last 15 years, setting out the evidence
             for their success or failure and then suggesting a
             strategy for others who may wish to develop their
             work by similar means. It introduces researchers to
             the language of information design, designers to some
             of the complexities of scientific research and looks
             forward to a research climate in which new knowledge
             and new practice spring from the same solid
             theoretical ground

CONTENTS:
- Introduction
- The changing scene
- The place of evidence in social work
- Linking research and development work
- Development, design, dissemination, Measuring dissemination
- The local context for research development
- What difference did Going Home make?
- Where do social workers get their information?
- Experiments to test ultimate outcomes
- Lessons learned from first steps
- Some rules of thumb
- Endpiece.


Paperback, 102 pp
Price: USD 19.95 / GBP 11.00
Published: 09/1998
Publisher: Ashgate publishers
ISBN: 1 84014 459 9

Webpages about this book:
https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=3D&key2=3D&orig=3Dresults=
&isbn=3D1%2084014%20459%209
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InfoDesign Bookwatch is compiled and edited by Piet Westendorp
and Karel van der Waarde. Suggestions for titles are welcome,
and may be sent to: [email protected]

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