Everybody knows that Richard Saul Wurman coined the term information architecture in 1975. What few people know, and nobody else seems to be working on, are the histories and stories and artifacts from the path he traveled to get there.
Read moreIDCA '72 Posters Program
Thirteen posters designed by Richard Saul Wurman. Some of these were un-rolled for the first time in 49 years at the scanning vendor.
Read morePhotos Of Books And Some Ephemera
David Ellison shot some photos of books and ephemera for me: flat scans of covers aren’t enough to convey the thingness of these things. Even so, the conclusion I came to after doing this was that I’ll need to work with a prop stylist.
Read morePrototypes, Permission + Possession
Richard Saul Wurman loves dummies.
He always makes a “binding dummy” when he’s working on a book. I’ve seen him do it a few times now: he calls the print and copy department at Office Max (or wherever), and has them cut and glue a block of blank sheets of paper to his spec. More than once, he had to tell them what he wanted “was like a custom pad of paper” to help them understand what he was asking for.
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