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Understanding Computers book (design, writing, and production)
ISBN# 0-7821-1284-6 The book, Understanding Computers, was designed for my mother as well as all of those people who feel that they should know something about computers but don't know where to start or are too intimidated. It's design allows readers to follow their...
EarthPack label
When the software utility TypeView was ready for distribution, the options available for packaging were meager, wasteful, and unacceptable. We designed a small package that could be used to ship and display the software and manual in one piece. This package design...
Danny Goodman’s Macintosh Handbook book (design, production, and project management)
ISBN: 0-553-35485-X (Macintosh) ISBN: 0-679-75586-1 (Windows) Danny Goodman's Macintosh Handbook was designed to set a new standard for "how-to" computer reference books. It was designed not only to take advantage of a 4-color presentation and to introduce and support...
Information Anxiety book (writing and illustrations)
In 1990, I contributed some illustrations and text to this book by my mentor, Richard Saul Wurman.
Renegade Graphics (design)
This project was one of personal political expression in the public realm. The explorations gave me an outlet to experiment with bold messages, communicated both visually and in text. These pop-up from time to time in public places I travel through when time allows....
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Directory (design and production)
I worked with Michael Everitt at TheUnderstandingBusiness on this project in 1989. It was for one of the largest seed providers in the world (now part of Monsanto). Their employees constantly traveled all over the world and had little way of preparing (especially for...
VECTA Furniture Catalog (design, production, and management)
In 1989, VECTA, a division of Steelcase, asked TheUnderstandingBusiness to look at their catalogs as a system. I was handed four or five catalogs and asked to clarify the information in them, remove needless redundancy, combine them as much as possible (to cut...
OfficeACCESS (design, production, and project management)
In 1989, I was asked to manage this project. It was one of the first books I did from start to finish, for publication. It was a partnership between Steelcase and TheUnderstandingBusiness about designing better offices and workspaces. The New York Times published a...
Pacific Bell SMART Business Pages prototype (design)
This was to be a business directory to state (in this case, California) businesses for distribution to overseas and out-of-state industry. It described the state's largest companies with information about each. The system was iconographic so that even if...
Pacific Bell SMART Pocket Pages prototype (design)
Another project from 1988 at TheUnderstandingBusiness. This was a mobile version of the Yellow Pages (back when mobile meant small for your car glovebox or purse). It was a separate subset of the listings and categories in the standard Yellow Pages for an area (only...