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Chapter 8: Information design in practice: multi-platform
delivery
In this chapter we explore how information designers have begun to use mul-
tiple platforms to depict information. Instead of using a single platform, such
as print, interactive or environmental, many now combine different ways of
delivering data and information. One single platform is not necessarily the
solution to the problem. The answer may lie in conveying the information
through multiple methods of delivery, carefully considered, structured and
presented by a methodical strategy.
Using multiple platforms
The examples we have selected use more than one way to deliver a message or data.
They combine and overlap platforms to ensure that the user has what they need to
decode and understand the message in an appropriate form. The projects are based
on solid research and understanding of the user's needs. One is a small-scale ex-
hibition (mediaarchitecture.de's ImpulsBauhaus exhibition in Weimar, Germany); the
other a large-scale wayfinding project (Two Twelve Design's proposal for the I Walk
New York wayfinding system). Through these case studies we aim to demonstrate the
diversity of information design and the fact that one message sometimes has to be
shown in several forms depending on the user and where it is viewed.
CASE STUDY
Interactive exhibition design
Project:
ImpulsBauhaus,
Bauhaus
University,
Weimar,
Germany,
2009
Design: mediaarchitecture.de, Germany
 
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