Despite the fact that their name means 'Design for Design,' MetaDesign is more than just a design firm. They boast a staff of more than 200 creative professionals who call themselves technologists, planners, designers, and more. Erik Spiekermann, who came into the venture with a background in type de
As an advocate of "radical eclecticism," Charles Jencks is architecture's prince of Postmodern plurality. For Jencks, Postmodernism is a movement that is irreducibly multiple, located between the demands of past aesthetics and those of present-day technologies and struggles. Broad
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
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