Information Design = Complexity + Interdisciplinarity + Experiment
Great article by Gerlinde Schuller over at AIGA
“Information design is explained in only three languages in Wikipedia. The term is not even listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica. This shows that the discipline is still far from having established itself, although its approach is as old as the cultural history of mankind. Information design focuses on the efficient graphic design of complex sets of information employing an interdisciplinary approach. The rapidly increasing complexity of data from our everyday lives has in the past decades led to information design distinguishing itself in the broad field of visual communication as a specific discipline with its own courses of study, practitioners and theoreticians.”
