InfoD: Bookwatch (40)

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          In this message:
          1) Wayshowing: A guide to environmental signage
             (Per Mollerup)
          2) Playfair's commercial and political atlas and
             statistical breviary (William Playfair)
          3) Selected readings of the Information Design
             International Conference 2003.
             (Carla Spinillo, Solange Coutinho (Eds.))
          4) The stroke: theory of writing (Gerrit Noordzij)


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1)    TITLE: Wayshowing: A guide to Environmental signage.
              Principles and practices.

      AUTHOR: Per Mollerup

     DETAILS: Price: USD 45.00 / ISBN: 303778055X /
              Published: 2005 / 288 Pages /
              Publisher: Lars Muller Publihers

     WEBSITE: http://www.wayshowing.info
              http://www.artbook.com/303778055x.html
              http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/303778055X/

DESCRIPTION: Designers and manufacturers use the term 'wayfinding'
              when talking about the function of signs and signage
              systems use, as they are used by the viewer. This
              book seeks to find a more precise visual language for
              what sign designers actually do, which is to show the
              way. The purpose of wayshowing is to facilitate
              wayfinding. In this investigation, the author examines
              international sign systems and architectural landmarks
              in detail.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Terminology

Principles
1 Doing without
2 Wayfinding and wayshowing
3 Practical theory
4 Sign functions
5 Names and numbers
6 Graphic elements
7 Sign design
8 Mise en sc=E8ne
9 Signage for the visually impaired
10 Planning

Interlude
11 Minimalism vs redundancy

Practices
12 Cases in point
13 Hospitals
14 Airports
15 Rails
16 Museums
17 Cities

Index
Bibliography

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2)    TITLE: Playfair's commercial and political atlas and
              statistical breviary

      AUTHOR: William Playfair.
              Introduction by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence.

     DETAILS: Price: GBP 25.00 - USD 39.99 / ISBN: 0521855543 /
              Published: 2005 / 248 Pages /
              Publisher: Cambridge University Press

     WEBSITE: http://www.cambridge.org/0521855543

DESCRIPTION: A scientific revolution began at the end of the
              eighteenth century with the invention and
              popularization of the graphic display of data by
              the remarkable Scot, William Playfair. His marvellous
              Atlas showed how much could be learned if one plotted
              data atheoretically and looked for suggestive patterns.
              Those patterns provide evidence, albeit circumstantial,
              on which to build new science. Playfair=B9s work has much
              to teach us. This full colour reproduction of two of
              his classic works, with new explanatory material, makes
              Playfair=B9s wisdom widely available for the first time
              in two centuries.

CONTENTS:
- Introduction Howard Wainer and Ian Spence
- The Commercial and Political Alas
- The Statistical Breviary

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3)    TITLE: Selected readings of the Information Design
              International Conference 2003.

     EDITORS: Carla G. Spinillo & Solange G. Coutinho

     DETAILS: Price: USD 15.00 + postage + bank charges/
              ISBN: 85-89879-02-x /
              Published: 2005 / 196 Pages /
              Publisher: SBDI The Brazilian Society of Information Design

      E-mail: Please ask publisher for ordering information:
              <[email protected]>

DESCRIPTION: The selected readings is a peer-reviewed collection
              of papers chosen from the presentations at the 2003
              Information Design International Conference held in
              Recife, Brazil.

CONTENTS:
Part 1: Looking through history
  1 Information design in early ephemera (Michael Twyman)
  2 Graphic design: from monotony to entropy (Flavio Cauduro)
  3 A new approach to Brazilian book design: the experience of
    Civilizacao Brasileira publishing house (Guilherme Cunha Lima &
    Ana Sofia Mariz)

Part 2: Theoretical perspectives
  4 Reasoning through concepts (Luiz Antonio Coelho)
  5 Optometry, legibility and readability in information design
    (Jorge Frascara)
  6 Research on writing: diagram, ideogram (Rogerio Camara)
  7 Images, diagrams and metaphors: a contribution from semiotics
    to information design (Priscila Farias)

Part 3: Instructional design in health printed material
  8 Visual information about medicines. Providing patiens
    with relevant information (Karel van der Waarde)
  9 Visual instructions on health printed materials: an analytical
    study of PPSs on how to use male and female condoms (Carla
    Spinillo, Evelyn Azevedo, Daniel Benevides)

Part 4: Information design in early education
10 Children's drawing and information design education. A semiotic
    and cognitive approach of visual literacy (Bernard Darras)
11 Commonalities in the process of children's drawings in
    different socail, educational contexts (Solange Coutinho,
    Eva Miranda, Barbara Formiga)

Part 5: Information design and technology: some issues and
         cases
12 Information design for developing educational interface
    (Jose Ricardo Cereja)
13 Hypermedia design: the relationships between culture,
    language, transdisciplinarity and information (Monica Moura)
14 Readers' navigation of electronic documents: how do we find
    our way around the research (Mary Dyson)
15 Usability principles for the design of global maps in
    hypertext systems (Stephania Padovani)
16 Design case: The information organization for a hypermedia
    environment (Heloise Pereira, Vania Ulbricht, Claudio Luiz
    Ferreira)
17 Design case: New interfaces for video browsing and editing
   (Heimo Muller, Maja, Pivec)

Author index.

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4)    TITLE: The stroke: theory of writing

      AUTHOR: Gerrit Noordzij

     DETAILS: Price: GBP 15 - EURO 20 - USD 25.00 /
              ISBN: 0=AD907259=AD30=AD8 /
              Published: 2005 / 88 Pages /
              Publisher: Hyphen Press

     WEBSITE: http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/titles/stroke/index.html

DESCRIPTION: 'The stroke' is the most concise and powerful statement
              of Gerrit Noordzij's theory of writing. First published
              in Dutch in 1985, it appears here for the first time in
              English. The book puts forward a genuine theory of all
              writing, done with any kind of generating tool. Noordzij
              starts with fundamentals =AD the space within and between
              letters =AD and proceeds in stages towards a full account
              of how the strokes of writing can be formed, and an
              analysis of the qualities of letters. Along the way,
              there are reflections on history and culture, and remarks
              on method. Noordzij's theory serves to repair the split
              that grew up, with the invention of printing, between
              written and typographic letters. He shows us the underlying
              'written' quality of all letters, with whatever technology
              they have been formed. Just by virtue of its strong theory,
              'The stroke' has practical consequences that transcend any
              simple 'how to do it' approach.

CONTENTS:
Foreword 1985
Foreword 2005

The white of the word
The stroke
The orientation of the front
The word
The invention of the word
The consolidation of the word
The great break
Changes in contrast
Technique

A note on the translation
Index of texts

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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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