Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
August 12, 2008
A brief but interesting little booklet from the Tactical Technology Collective on information design. From the blurb:
Modern life is saturated with ever increasing amounts of information, advertising and media with little time to digest what is being said. Against this background, NGOs and advocates too often find the information they want to communicate, either buried in long reports full of professional jargon and statistics, or overlooked in an endless stream of media releases. Whether communicating to the public, staff, donors or government officials, information design can help NGOs communicate with more impact, increase accessibility, and present issues powerfully.
Visualizing Information for Advocacy is available as a PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license.
Filed under: computing, design, open textbooks
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Henry Rachlin | July 14, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I’ve just learned of your organization through the Open Textbook website. I’ve worked with print information my whole professional life, as a textbook designer for major U.S. publishers (which may put me in the enemy camp).
I support your mission. I’d like to make a small suggestion regarding your website. I’ve downloaded your pdf, Visualizing Information for Advocacy, but it took me some time to figure out how to download. I first tried the title link, then the license link, and ignored the pdf link (which was the winner) because I thought it would take me to the Adobe download site. Why not a simple “Download” link?
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