David Sless | John Benjamins

David Sless

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Sless plays a role.

Journal

Information Design Journal (IDJ)

Edited by Maria dos Santos Lonsdale

ISSN 0142-5471 | E-ISSN 1569-979X

Articles

Sless, David. 2022. Wayfinding and waygiving. Information Design Journal 27:2, pp. 141–143

Editorial

2019. IDJ at my side. Information Design Journal 25:3, pp. 326–330

David Sless’s journey to information designer coincides with the history of IDJ. David’s first paper was published in the second issue (1979). David’s journey alongside IDJ included the generosity of Peter Simlinger of IIID (1980s) and the encouragement of Paul Stiff of Reading University (1990s).… read more | Article

Sless, David. 2017. From Semiotics to Choreography. Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design, Farias, Priscila Lena and João Queiroz (eds.), pp. 173–183

Article

Sless, David. 2008. Measuring information design. Highlights of Vision Plus 12: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results, Strand, Lennart and Peter Simlinger (eds.), pp. 250–258

This paper was originally given as a keynote presentation to the IIID Vision Plus 12 Conference held in Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg, Austria in 2007. Presentations are not papers and in some respects they do not translate one into the other. I have edited it for this Journal as a stand-alone piece;… read more | Article

Sless, David. 2004. Designing public documents. Information Design Journal 12:1, pp. 24–35

Article

Sless, David. 2003. Review of “Typography and Language in Everyday Life: Prescription and Practice” by Sue Walker. Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 281–283

Review

Sless, David. 1998. A rejoinder from David Sless. Information Design Journal 9:1, pp. 27–28

Miscellaneous

Sless, David. 1998. Building the bridge across the years and disciplines. Information Design Journal 9:1, pp. 3–10

Article

Sless, David. 1996. Early travels through information design. Information Design Journal 8:3, pp. 228–232

Article

Sless, David. 1991. Designing a new bill for Telecom Australia. Information Design Journal 6:3, pp. 255–257

Article

Fisher, Phil and David Sless. 1990. Information design methods and productivity in the insurance industry. Information Design Journal 6:2, pp. 103–129

This paper discusses the management and execution of an information design project, undertaken in Australia, for a large insurance company. The project provided the opportunity to use well developed principles of information design, project planning and management, and methods for dealing with… read more | Article

Sless, David. 1986. Reading semiotics. Information Design Journal 4:3, pp. 179–189

This paper presents a general and non-technical overview of semiotics and its recent history. The importance of Peirce and Saussure as founding fathers of contemporary semiotics is discussed and the debate they precipitated is mapped out including some of the peculiar characteristics of semiotics… read more | Article

Sless, David. 1984. Sorts. Information Design Journal 4:2, pp. 172–173

Miscellaneous

Sless, David and Ian McLaren. 1980. Communications to the editor. Information Design Journal 1:4, pp. 285–288

Miscellaneous

Sless, David. 1979. Image design and modification: An experimental project in transforming. Information Design Journal 1:2, pp. 74–80

This paper reports an experimental pedagogic investigation of design behaviour. The subjects were design students and they were required to modify an image on the basis of feedback from a target audience. Results showed a consistent improvement in performance of the image with successive… read more | Article