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         In this message:
         1. Beautiful Data (Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher)
         2. The transformer (Marie Neurath, Robin Kinross)
         3. Design Integrations (Sharon Poggenpohl, Keiichi Sato)
         4. Managing information for research
            (Elizabeth Orna, Graham Stevens)
         5. Wayfinding (Craig Berger)
         6. The Wayfinding Handbook (David Gibson)

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1)     TITLE: Beautiful Data
               The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

      AUTHORS: Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher

      DETAILS: Price: USD 44.99 | 34.50 GBP
               ISBN 13: 9780596157111
               Published: July 2009
               Publisher: O'Reilly,

      WEBSITE: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111/

DESCRIPTION:
This book shows how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working
with data can be. 39 contributors explain how they developed
simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the
Mars lander to a Radiohead video.


CONTENTS:
  1 Seeing Your Life in Data
  2 The Beautiful People: Keeping Users in Mind When Designing
    Data Collection Methods
  3 Embedded Image Data Processing on Mars
  4 Cloud Storage Design in a PNUTShell
  5 Information Platforms and the Rise of the Data Scientist
  6 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive
  7 Data Finds Data
  8 Portable Data in Real Time
  9 Surfacing the Deep Web
10 Building Radiohead's House of Cards
11 Visualizing Urban Data
12 The Design of Sense.us
13 What Data Doesn't Do
14 Natural Language Corpus Data
15 Life in Data: The Story of DNA
16 Beautifying Data in the Real World
17 Superficial Data Analysis: Exploring Millions of Social Stereotypes
18 Bay Area Blues: The Effect of the Housing Crisis
19 Beautiful Political Data
20 Connecting Data


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2)     TITLE: The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts

      AUTHORS: Marie Neurath and Robin Kinross

      DETAILS: Price: 15.00 GBP
               ISBN: 978-0-907259-40-4
               Published: 2009 / 182 pages
               Publisher: Hyphen Press, London

      WEBSITE: http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/books/978-0-907259-40-4

DESCRIPTION:
The visual work of Otto Neurath and his associates, now commonly
known as Isotype, has been much discussed in recent years. This
short book explains its essential principles: the work of
'transforming', or putting information into visual form.
This deeper level of their work =AD which is applicable in all
areas of design =AD is routinely neglected in the assumption that
Isotype is just a matter of symbols and pictograms. At the core
of the book is a previously unpublished essay by Marie Neurath,
the principle Isotype transformer, which she wrote in the last
year of her life. This is supplemented by Robin Kinross with
commentary on illustrated examples of Isotype and other
supporting short essays.


CONTENTS:
Preface (Robin Kinross)
1. Wiener Methode and Isotype: my apprenticeship and
    partnership with Otto Neurath (Marie Neurath)
2. The work of the transformer (RK & MN)
3. Lessons of Isotype (RK)
4. Marie Neurath (1898=AD1986) (RK)
Sources
Index

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3)     TITLE: Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration

      EDITORS: Sharon Poggenpohl, Keiichi Sato

      DETAILS: Price: USD 40.00 | 19.95 GBP
               ISBN: 978-1841502403
               Published: September 15, 2009 / 304 pages
               Publisher: Intellect Ltd (September 15, 2009)

      WEBSITE: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=3D4633/

DESCRIPTION:
Design is changing, and to educate the next =

generation of designers, these changes need to be =

addressed. In light of the growing role research =

and interdisciplinary collaboration play in =

contemporary design performance, Design =

Integrations calls for an innovative shake up in =

design education.

Poggenpohl asserts that design research is =

developed through a typology within academic and =

business contexts, and follows different research =

theories and strategies. Such issues in design =

collaboration are explored in-depth, with essays =

on an inter-institutional academic project, =

cross-cultural learning experiences, and a =

multi-national healthcare project, demonstrating =

the importance of shared values, =

interdisciplinary negotiated process and clear =

communication for tomorrow=B9s designers.

CONTENTS:
Design Integrations

Introduction
  1. Time for Change: Building a Design Discipline (Sharon Helmer Poggenpoh=
l)

Design Research
  2. Perspectives on Design Research (Keiichi Sato)
  3. Design Theory and Methodology for Engineering Design Practices
     (Tetsuo Tomiyama)
  4. Artifacts, Activities, and Design Knowledge (Kari Kuutti)
  5. Mediating In-Between: How Industrial Design Advances Business and User
     Innovation (Birgit Helene Jevnaker)
  6. The Synthesis of Design, Technology, and Business Goals
     (Tom MacTavish)

Design Collaboration
  7. Practicing Collaborative Action in Design (Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl)
  8. Collaborative Infiltration in a Media Organization: WGBH (Toby Bottorf)
  9. Light and Lively: Running a Virtual Design Studio (Aaron Marcus)
10. Looking Back at the National Graphic Design Archive Collaboration
     (R. Roger Remington)
11. Innovative Collaborative Design in International Interaction
     Design Summer Schools (Nicole Schadewitz)
12. A Complex Model for International and Intercultural
     Collaboration in Health Information Systems (Judith Gregory)

Conclusion
13. Design Intelligence (Kees Dorst)

Index
Name Index
Author Notes

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4)     TITLE: Managing information for research
               Practical help in researching, writing and designing
               dissertations

      AUTHORS: Elizabeth Orna and Graham Stevens

      DETAILS: Price: USD 30.00 | 19.99 GBP
               ISBN: 9780335221424
               Published: June 2009 / 272 pages
               Publisher: Open University press, McGraw-Hill Education.

      WEBSITE: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335221424.html

DESCRIPTION:
You can't do research of any kind without doing two things:
1 Finding and organizing relevant information
2 Transforming it into the end product on which =

your research will be judged and rewarded (or =

not!)

Yet realistic and detailed guidance on these =

vital activities is in short supply. The authors' =

unique design approach shows how the two are =

related and how they can support each other =

throughout research.

New features in this completely rewritten and =

re-designed edition include: Stories from the =

experience of researchers; Typographical page =

layout templates for each part of a dissertation; =

'Tips, time-savers and troubleshooting' for =

dissertation writers.

CONTENTS:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
First things first

Part 1 The territory
   1 Dear Reader ...
   2 Mapping the research domain

Part 2 Managing two kinds of information
   3 Information to support research - and how to manage it
   4 Keeping the record straight: documenting the research
   5 Keeping on good terms with Time

Part 3 Planning the end product
   6 Thinking ahead: questions and decisions
   7 A design brief for your dissertation

Part 4 The final transformation
   8 Integrating design and writing
   9.1 Design is more than cosmetic: background and observations
   9.2 Design is more than cosmetic: a basic toolkit for dissertation design
   9.3 Design is more than cosmetic: seeing is perceiving
  10 Designing your writing

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5)     TITLE: Wayfinding
               Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems

       AUTHOR: Craig Berger

      DETAILS: Price: USD 30.00 | 23.00 GBP
               ISBN: 9782888930570
               Published: 2009 / 176 pages
               Publisher: Rockport publishers, Beverley (MA).

      WEBSITE: http://www.rockpub.com/description.asp?isbn=3D9782888930570

DESCRIPTION:
As more spaces turn into public areas and become increasingly
complicated, people, more than ever, need to know where they
are and where they are going. To bring clarity to this confusion,
graphic design is crucial, but the design of wayfinding systems
is also a collaborative process.

This is a handbook for designers working across all disciplines.
Illustrations and case studies show how to incorporate logos,
graphics, color, and type to relate a complete wayfinding system
to the character of a city, exhibition, or sportsground.
Checklists of requirements provide a blueprint for developing
wayfinding systems. Every aspect is detailed, including stakeholder
groups; criteria of specific jobs; design elements; fabrication,
installation, and placement of signs and banners; and
maintenance and management systems.

CONTENTS:
Preliminaries
1. Wayfinding in environmental graphic design
2. The functions of wayfinding
3. Implementation and projects - internal
4. Implementation and projects - external
Appendices

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6)     TITLE: The Wayfinding Handbook
               Information design for Public Places

       AUTHOR: David Gibson

      DETAILS: Price: USD 24.95 | 23.00 GBP
               ISBN: 9781568987699
               Published: 2009 / 152 pages
               Publisher: Chronicle Books

      WEBSITE: =

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,=
7821/title,The-Wayfinding-Handbook/


DESCRIPTION:
Whether we find ourselves in a museum, hospital, airport, mall,
or street in an unfamiliar city, we depend on systems of visual,
audible, and tactile cues not only to lead the way, but also to
keep us safe. They are the fundamental questions of wayfinding =8B
a process that encompasses both the experience of choosing a path
within a built environment and the set of design elements that aid
in such a decision. A decade ago, the professional practice of
wayfinding design simply involved devising sign systems. Today,
the field is much broader and continues to expand to address
technological developments=8Bkinetic media, GPS systems, web
connectivity, smart materials=8Bas well as cultural changes
in areas such as branding and environmental awareness. Similarly,
a cross-disciplinary familiarity with graphic, architectural,
landscape, interior, industrial, and information design has
become an essential requirement of twenty-first-century
wayfinding design.

The Wayfinding Handbook is a guide to the discipline,
from planning and design to practical considerations,
such as setting up teams and managing projects. "Other Voices"
sidebars, presented throughout the book, reveal the opinions
of experts who plan, manage, and shape wayfinding projects.

CONTENTS:
Foreword
Preface
1. The discipline
2. Planning wayfinding systems
3. Wayfinding design
4. Practical considerations
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Resources
Image credits
Index

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InfoDesign Bookwatch is compiled by Karel van der Waarde.
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