Rob Waller
Recent articles by Rob Waller
Making sense of a complex ideal
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Simplification is an ideal we think we aspire to, whether we are talking…
Beck and beyond
Issue 85, Spring 2013
Harry Beck’s underground map must be the most celebrated, discussed and…
Places need signs
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Information design, architecture and making buildings readable
Recent blog posts by Rob Waller
Even further beyond Beck
16 September 2013
Extended review: Rob Waller takes a closer look at Underground Maps Unravelled by psychologist Maxwell Roberts
Harry Beck’s underground map has to be the most celebrated and discussed instance of information design, writes Rob Waller.
Lost in space
28 July 2011
Why do architects believe their wordless buildings are easy to read?
‘Sign designers are convinced that architects don’t like them,’ writes Rob Waller, in his provocative Monitor piece in the latest issue of Eye (no. 80 vol. 20).