The US military were reported last week to have found out something that many of us involved in information design and technical communications have known for a very long time: over-use of PowerPoint obscures the truth rather than reveals it, and confuses an audience rather than educates it. But the reports from the military suggest that the results of misuse may actually endanger lives. Read more
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The pre-history of Information Design
I have a personal recollection of the St Bride Library from many years ago, when it was a public library with a specialist collection, and was very convenient for the school I went to, which at the time was on the Embankment at Blackfriars. My old school has moved, and the Library has reverted to being a specialist institution, and has been extensively refurbished.
Located adjacent to one of Sir Christopher Wren’s finest churches, itself built in the ruins of older places of worship going back to Saxon times, and just a few yards from Fleet Street, once the home of Britain’s newspaper industry, the St Bride Foundation hosts the St Bride Printing Library, one of the most significant collections of typography and historical printed reference in the world. Read more
