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Information Design
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In order to satisfy the information needs of the intended receivers information design comprises analysis, planning, presentation and understanding of a message—its content, language and form. Regardless of the selected medium, a well designed information material will satisfy aesthetic, economic, ergonomic, as well as subject matter requirements. Information design is a multidisciplinary , multi-dimensional and worldwide consideration with influences from areas such as language, art and aesthetics, information, communication, behaviour and cognition, business and law, as well as media production technologies. In this paper I have brought together three presentations from international conferences in 1998 (Pettersson, 1998a, b, and c).
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Published in T. Velders (Ed.), Beldenstorm in Deventer, Deventer, Holland: The Rijkshogeschool, IJselland, and the International Visual Literacy Association.
Printed in Proceedings Book, The Republic of Information, Vision Plus 4. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design & International Institute for Information Design, 58–74.
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