Design Quarterly 145: Hats (Richard Saul Wurman)

This issue of Design Quarterly is not about hats. It’s about hats as a metaphor for units of information. It’s also about the hat rack as a model for the understanding of relationships and the finding of information. It’s about the visual hat racks (maps, diagrams, charts, lists, time lines) that help us understand how our world is organized. Information hats may be hung on these racks so that patterns, connections, and relationships formed from such adjacencies are revealed. Make sense? No? Yes? Either way this issue by architect and thinker Richard Saul Wurman will help.