Thoughts & Observations on
INFORMATION DESIGN
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Who doesn’t like a beautiful rendering of the anatomy of plants?? I collect a lot of botany books just to admire their pictures. Botany books are a good example of reference book design. Today let’s take a closer look at a few of these books to learn what it takes to compose a reference book.
There is information coming at us in different sensory forms. There is our five senses and their quirks in receiving and processing information. In this article, we’ll focus on visual information, examine different levels of abstraction of visual information, and how different people could sense and process the information differently.
A book that looks like a children’s book with the content that’s completely suitable for adult readers, this book celebrates all the people behind the bookmaking process. From the idea conceived in an author’s mind to the book held in a reader’s hand, this book is visually vibrant and verbally succinct. Informative, lighthearted, and educational.
If the “normal” books are on a mission to disseminate information as efficiently as possible, then we can say the artists’ books are here to push the boundary of human cognition. What can commercially produced and circulated books learn from artist’ books?
Architectural drawing can not be used directly as illustrations? Making of an informative book? Find out why and how in this book design review! Bonus: what to know about translation and localization!