We are a bank: everything is important
byOk, this gem is for our Italian readers: Last month in Rome I spotted this lovely example of bad communication in a bank office. …
Display of Quantitative information
Odd Even Numbers
bySpeedometers come in a range of formats. Some are purely digital; most are analog. Digital speedometers have the cognitive advantage of an immediate and…
Next slide please.
byLast monday I had quite an important meeting: the Career Office gave us an update on new policies for recruiting students: serious matter, requiring…
Swim well and live 150 years
byThere are many ways to remember an artist. The authorities of the Island of Capri have done something quite creative when they decided to…
Can we kindly redesign all the signage systems in the world, please?
byAfter my lecture on wayfinding and typefaces at Paris DEC, last friday, I have received an interesting feedback from my friend Valeria Giardino, a…
Visual Design Optimism at Easyjet
byThis sign is displayed on the back of every seat on Easyjet planes. The information it provides is pretty much straightforward and the pictograms…
Three dollars and some
byRead it aloud: three dollars and sixty-nice cents and nine tenths, the price of a gallon of gasoline. The decimal-positional system can be tweaked…
The Doctor is InDesign • A dialogue from a play on Visual Design
byThe appreciation of the role of designers in our society will not change until we do change certain principles of our practice. The main…