COMICS + INFORMATION DESIGN By Austin Kleon

The first class was really an eye opener for me. I wasn’t really sure what to expect going in, and what we intend to cover is pretty broad.

In the days following, I met common everyday instances with a very fresh and critical, as well as different, perspective.

Our daily challenges of information distribution and retrieval challenged prior notions of mine about our daily interfaces with information. I peered deeper than ‘Why would they design this that way?’, or, ‘Who got paid to do this? It makes no sense.” Alternatively, I kept a keen and watchful eye on information that made sense as there were. Fortunately more often than not, there are numerous and simple design decisions that made the day easier. Whether it’s determining where to put laundry in commercial washing machines or something as simple as the minimum of effective instructions on a tube of toothpaste, simply comprehensible information makes a huge difference in our lives.

There were a few themes that popped out to me. This is a short, and growing, list: Continued…