Feature: Information design
Undergrowth
Untangling the internet with IA’s metro ‘snapshot’
Working lunch
Mumbai’s dabbawallas deliver 175,000 meals daily to hungry workers using a unique system. By Steve Rigley and Kurnal Rawat
LA art school
From Punk to production design: the widescreen career of Alex McDowell
Big business, big world
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, 1953
Time, motion, symbol, line
Choreographers through the centuries have made brave, often beautiful attempts to visualise and record their work. Technology provides new means, but scoring a moving, dancing body in four dimensions remains elusive
Love of lexicons
The dictionary framework allows readers to find random nuggets of information, forging connections that reflect the arbitrary nature of life.
A design (to sign roads by)
As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert demand careful study. Despite poor application, inconsistent additions and muddle over the past four decades, their robust, flexible system – with its humane typeface and quirky pictograms – still functions throughout the length and breadth of Britain