"Curiouser and curiouser!" was Alice's verdict on her adventures down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), a book that exposed the absurdity of adult conventions and manners above ground. Carroll (whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson) was a pathologically shy math

Fantastic, Fantasy, Layered, Mathematical, Quirky, Repetition, Surreal, Whimsical

Richard Wurman has used his experience with city planning to form theories on information organization that fundamentally question how organization impacts our use of resources. In the 1960s, Wurman saw how urban renewal efforts faltered -- despite massive government funding -- because planners lacke

Clean, Info architecture & theory, Mathematical, Pioneering

Throughout our daily lives we relate to our multi-dimensional world in a two-dimensional manner via visual communications such as signs, advertisements, and Internet-specific communications. In the information technology arena, these types of communications also include everything from timetables and

Anal, Elegant, Geometric, Info architecture & theory, Mathematical, Quiet, Spare

Adrian Frutiger not only created one of the most successful and widely used typefaces, but he also created a standard of excellence in type design that will likely elude designers for generations to come. Frutiger received his formal education and apprenticeship in Switzerland, where, in 1951, he pro

Epic, Mathematical, Pioneering, Swiss international style