Comics and Information Design

Matt Forsythe | January 16th, 2007

Scott McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics, is well-loved in the comics community for its entertaining explanation of the comics medium; but, in an interesting twist, McCloud is also garnering praise from web developers for the way he describes how to convey information visually.

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Here, the design and usability blog, Signal vs. Noise, reviews McCloud’s work and how it can benefit web designers and information architects in their own fields. I love how Jason Fried is always looking at the big picture. It’s a really cool interdisciplinary analysis with additional links to more resources on comics and information design.

This relationship was also discussed in this previously blogged radio interview with McCloud.

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  • brandonbarr
    The first time I read McCloud's book was in a theatre semiotics course, and again in media studies graduate courses. It really works well as a baseline text for discussion of how a medium is used to communicate. Read it and then Adolphe Appia, Patrice Pavis, de Saussere, Shannon and Weaver, etc--they're talking about the same thing, just applied different media.
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