August 31, 2004

Open Here

Kevin Kelly's (not the Irish one) Cool Tools has a quick review of Open Here: The Art of Instructional Design, which focuses on designing wordless illustrations for instructions (think of the little graphics in the safety info booklets in the seatback pockets on airplanes, which Kelly admits to swiping because he finds the graphics interesting).

The book itself offers this witty little synopsis:

"Open here" has been designed and manufactured to the highest standards. It will show you around your daily Kafkaesque life of incomprehensible technology, frustrating packaging, do-it-yourself disasters-and the Visual Instructive Esperanto that should help you out.
Only US$5.99 at amazon.com.

[via Cool Tools] Posted by johndan at August 31, 2004 05:52 PM | TrackBack