Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century

In this book, Bob Horn has brought together the depth of his years of experience in information design with a wealth of research on the history and practice of visual languages. The result is a new synthesis: a way of thinking about visual language that integrates and extends the different elements on which he draws. It may come to be, as he predicts, the starting point for a new field of study that develops the "global language for the 21st century."

Robert E. Horn is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. He recently launched and published the critically acclaimed map series, Mapping Great Debates: Can Computers Think? He is author of the seminal work Mapping Hypertext as well as the The Guide to Simulations/Games. He is also director of several projects to apply visual language mehtodology to mapping debates about evolution and the frontiers of consciusness research.