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“There is little doubt that Information Design gets short shrift. It just isn’t considered very sexy. However, I am refreshed that when talking to classes of students about it as I have done over the years, there is both amazement that it exists at all (they had never been told about it in any way that had engaged their attention), often followed by profound interest and excitement. Sown in the right soil these concepts can flourish and give meaning and direction to study and provide real and worthwhile goals to strive toward. Information Design presents a similar opportunity to those designers who have been practicing for some time and who might cherish the chance to broaden their horizons and have some more demanding destination toward which to aim. And the challenge is profound. On a daily basis, we are all confronted by misleading or garbled information all around us and assaulted by mind-numbing brainloads of gibberish every time we log onto the Web. As a designer, you are presented with the clear opportunity to take action and carve some kind of path of clarity through all this stuff.”