“(…) chapters explaining verbo-visual communication, information and message design principles, design processes, and design tools.” (Rune Pettersson – John Benjamins) – courtesy of beth mazur

“Information design is about the organization of the content and the architectural shell that holds it.” (MONKEYmedia, Inc.) – courtesy of erin malone

“(…) developing effective methods and computer-supported representations for capturing, maintaining and re-using records of why designers have made the decisions they have. The challenge is to make the effort of recording rationale worthwhile and not too onerous for the designer, but sufficiently structured and indexed that it is retrievable and understandable to an outsider trying to understand the design at a later date.” (Simon Buckingham Shum – Knowledge Media Institute)

“Knowledge can be understood as interpreted content, available to a member of a community and always shaped by a particular context. Digital representations of content and context become e-knowledge through the dynamics of human engagement with them. The digital elements of e-knowledge can be codified, combined, repurposed, and exchanged. Knowledge is both a thing and a flow, shifting between explicit and implicit states and between different meanings in different contexts.” (Donald M. Norris, Jon Mason and Paul Lefrere)

“(…) if we wish to remain critical viewers of the news media in the midst of this image-driven, converging media landscape, we must develop equally sophisticated visual literacy skills.” (Kate Brigham – mfa thesis) – courtesy of xblog