Feature: Information design

 
Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch

Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch

As Covid-19 spread across the globe, it became clear that data visualisation would become ‘the language of the pandemic’.
 
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design

Jacqueline Casey. Science and design

Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick
 
Moscow by type

Moscow by type

For the underground railway of Russia’s capital, wayfinding experts City ID commissioned A2-Type to make the Metro’s first typeface and pictogram system
 
Writing the city

Writing the city

Signwriter Pete Hardwicke has left his mark on a significant area of London
 
Natural fantasy

Natural fantasy

Anna Kealey on the myth-making powers of food packaging design
 
Training the big guns

Training the big guns

Peter Sullivan’s newspaper war visuals 1970s & 80s
 
Do it yourself

Do it yourself

Fraser Muggeridge reads a trusty manual that shows how to fix almost anything
 
The art of illumination

The art of illumination

Will Burtin, the man who invented infodesign 1940s
 
Strip science

Strip science

Rob Waller decodes the multimodal layout lessons of Rupert Bear
 
Charts change minds

Charts change minds

Description of the slave ship Brookes 1788
 
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