Graphic Information Design
Notes from GDES 2010 - Graphic Information Design
What is graphic information design?
Information Architecture – This is associated IT and web projects.
“Complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency”.
“The graphical representation of facts, figures and information”.
Graphic Information Design – Early History
Early black and white engravings Early architecture “cut away” drawings Byrne's Geometry Maps and Charts – a great example of a result of the “Information” having been subject to bring “designed” in the way it's put across. - Most adults understand the levels of information laid out in a graphical manner within maps. Excellent local early examples: Mappa Mundi. Visual Systems – Harry Beck – An alectrical draftsman completed his re design of the London underground map in 1933. Road Signage Systems – In 1903 the Motor Car Act required that local authorities provide warning signs. Combinations of circular and triangular signs were used. - Road signs up to the 1930's were often confusing. - A massive re design of the system took place between 1957 and 1967 by the designers Jack Kinner and Margaret Calvert. Their visual system then became a key role model worldwide for road signs. Children's Educational Strip Cartoons – For a good portion of the 20th century children's strip cartoons have educated and informed generations of children. Some of these showed incredibly complexed machines or structures. - Some well known examples appear by Will Burton. Will was asked to create instructual manuals for young (and often uneducated) US army recruits. Otto Neurath ISOTYPES – Naurath was influenced by Egyptian tomb hieroglyphs and bold flat colours. He liked strong, simple shapes. - He developed the ISOTYPES during the late 1920's. - He escaped the Nazis in Austria in the 1930's and fled to Britain during the war where he worked at Reading University until his death in 1945. US Fortune Magazine 1930's to 1950's – The magazine developed a reputation for it's maps during the 30's. Maps helped clarify much of the changing political and trade landscape of the area. Pierre Boucher “How to ski” instruction manual, 1947 – A book developed to teach how to ski like the famous French skier Emile Allais. Quick Information Sketches Graphs and Pie charts – Graphical representations of polls or statistics has been commonplace since the 1930's
Early black and white engravings Early architecture “cut away” drawings Byrne's Geometry Maps and Charts – a great example of a result of the “Information” having been subject to bring “designed” in the way it's put across. - Most adults understand the levels of information laid out in a graphical manner within maps. Excellent local early examples: Mappa Mundi. Visual Systems – Harry Beck – An alectrical draftsman completed his re design of the London underground map in 1933. Road Signage Systems – In 1903 the Motor Car Act required that local authorities provide warning signs. Combinations of circular and triangular signs were used. - Road signs up to the 1930's were often confusing. - A massive re design of the system took place between 1957 and 1967 by the designers Jack Kinner and Margaret Calvert. Their visual system then became a key role model worldwide for road signs. Children's Educational Strip Cartoons – For a good portion of the 20th century children's strip cartoons have educated and informed generations of children. Some of these showed incredibly complexed machines or structures. - Some well known examples appear by Will Burton. Will was asked to create instructual manuals for young (and often uneducated) US army recruits. Otto Neurath ISOTYPES – Naurath was influenced by Egyptian tomb hieroglyphs and bold flat colours. He liked strong, simple shapes. - He developed the ISOTYPES during the late 1920's. - He escaped the Nazis in Austria in the 1930's and fled to Britain during the war where he worked at Reading University until his death in 1945. US Fortune Magazine 1930's to 1950's – The magazine developed a reputation for it's maps during the 30's. Maps helped clarify much of the changing political and trade landscape of the area. Pierre Boucher “How to ski” instruction manual, 1947 – A book developed to teach how to ski like the famous French skier Emile Allais. Quick Information Sketches Graphs and Pie charts – Graphical representations of polls or statistics has been commonplace since the 1930's
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