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 moreEpoch B Foundation Speech by Jonas Salk
Digital transfer from a cassette tape from Richard Saul Wurman’s archives. RSW was a board member of the Epoch B Foundation, and taped this speech from one of the group’s meetings at the Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills mountains of New York.
Read moreA Paperclip & 299 Other Things
Some artifacts in RSW’s archive from a never-realized project circa 1980 to stage an exhibition around American industrial designers and manufactured goods.
Read moreHailing Failing (And Still Sailing) - RSW Interview with Francis Crick
Digital transfer from a cassette tape. Interview by Richard Saul Wurman with Francis Crick on November 16, 1978
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.
Read moreMilton Glaser On Information Architecture
I conducted an email interview with graphic design legend Milton Glaser today, who served on the boards of IDCA and AIGA with RSW.
Read moreRSW's Bon Mots On Twitter
I operate a Twitter account that collects RSW’s bon mots. The account is called Fakewurman, but all the quotes are real.
UnderstandingUnderstanding Book Launch
What a treat to see RSW signing copies of UnderstandingUnderstanding, his .. for now let’s say it’s his 100th book. This was the first (and only) physical retail location for acquiring copies of “Understanding Understanding”
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