Edited By Hirokazu Satoh. Tatuo MIyajima, Naoko Tanimoto, Tetuo Takada, Ai Oh, Tamotsu Iihara, Iwao Imai, Un Tamura, Iwao Nara, Tetsuo Miuno, Hiroshi Komatsu, Nobuhiro Aihara, Toshio Iwai, Yukio Fujimoto.
Summary
In charge "Why is" information "design?" (Pp.10-23). An overview of the relationship between changes in communication forms and design is given in line with the development of information media. He discussed the form of visual communication and its qualitative changes in four parts: "Why Information Design", "Communication Mechanism", "Design and Semiotics", and "From Semiotics to Media Studies".