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March 12, 2009
Richard Saul Wurman
A Conversation With Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman is an architect, a cartographer, the creator of the Access Travel Guide Series, and the author and designer of more than eighty books, including Information Architects (1996), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) and Information Anxiety (1989). He has also served as chairman and creative director of the TED conferences. For Wurman: "The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable. In the end, all I am ever trying to do with every project I do is to do good work.”
With support form the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UM School of Information, and AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.
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Selected Bibliography
- InfoDesign: Understanding by Design | Special on R.S. Wurman.
- Richard Saul Wurman..
- TED Richard Saul Wurman Profile - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com.
- TED: Ideas worth spreading.
- The Art Directors Club / Hall of Fame.
- Anonymous. 1997. Wurman out loud. Inc 19, no. 6 (May): 62.
- Stipp, David. 1997. Richard Saul Wurman: The king of access. Fortune 135, no. 12 (June 23): 106.
- Wurman, Richard Saul. 2001. Information Anxiety 2. Indianapolis, Ind: Que. Shapiro Undergraduate Library P 90 .W96 2001
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