Re: summary of wordless manual information

Subject: Re: summary of wordless manual information
From: Nancy McDonald <nmcdonald -at- OTECH -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 12:05:34 -0400

Mary:
--and don't forget the "Good Dog Carl" books... <gr>
(in case you hadn't heard, they're ostensibly children's books,
wordless, and great full stories of a wonderful rotweiller that takes
care of a toddler... forget the author's name...)

Nancy McDonald
nmcdonald -at- otech -dot- com

Mary Howe wrote:
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> Many thanks to the people who answered my query about wordless manuals
> (with apologies if I left you out of this list):
>
> Suggestions of examples to look at:
>
> Seat cards in airplanes (Nancy Kaminski, Gila Jones)
> Public health agencies working in third-world countries (Naomi Kritzer)
> Origami books (Jennifer Andre)
> Wordless Army materials (Becca)
> Lego building block instructions (Win Day, Rogers George)
> IKEA furniture assembly instructions (Larry Berlow)
> maranGraphics books (Keith Soltys)
> Kodak printer instructions (Stephen Forrest)
> HP products (Robert Barlow-Busch, Catherine McNair)
>
> Development sequence suggestions:
>
> Sequence of development steps: 1) Definition of information to be
> conveyed; 2) logical flow of information 3) unambiguous illustrations.
> (Jan Stanley)
>
> Book suggestions:
>
> Books by Edward Tufte (Ruth Glaser)
> "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
> "Envisioning Information"
> "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence
> and Narrative"
> Books by William Horton (Mary Jean Fitzgibbons)
>
> I'm still collecting examples, so keep me in mind if you come across
> anything good.
>
> Mary
> --
> Mary Howe
> Thunder Works, Inc.
> Writing and Editing Services
> thunder -at- idir -dot- net

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