One of our company’s first projects was to edit and format the strategic plan of a telco spun out of AT&T (the planning group wanted to display forward-thinkingness by using the then-new technology of desktop-publishing). We devised a business-like layout with sideheads (headlines in the left margin), that we’ve updated from time to time for [...]
The final installment of a survey of global warming by Elizabeth Kolbert published in The New Yorker (May 9, 2005), sets forth some ideas for attacking the problem advanced by Princeton engineering professor Robert Socolow, co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. The article features a striking illustration based on a chart Socolow and his colleagues [...]
We owe more to the printed picture than to the printed word. That, paraphrased, is the thesis of a wonderful book, Prints and Visual Communication, by William M Ivins, Jr., first published in 1953. Ivins was for many years curator of prints at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the title and cover, [...]