Richard Saul Wurman (March 26, 1935)
Is an American architect and graphic designer. Wurman has written and designed over 83 books, and cofounded the TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference,[1] as well as the EG conference, TEDMED and the WWW suite of gatherings, in development as of July 2014.
Career
Wurman chaired the IDCA Conference in 1972, the First Federal Design assembly in 1973, and the annual AIA Conference in 1976. He is perhaps best known for having cofounded and chaired the TED conference from 1984 thru 2002, bringing together various thinkers in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design. He also created the TEDMED conference (1995-2010) and the e.g. conference in 2006.
In 1976, Wurman coined the phrase "information architect" in response to the large amount of information generated in contemporary society, which is often presented with little care or order. Wurman said, "I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systemic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it."
In 1978, he served as the Dean for the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design.
In 1984, he created the TED conference, and spoke about it at the 30th anniversary TED conference.
Wurman created the Access series of travel guidebooks,[when?] which incorporated idiosyncratic efforts to dissect mapping content and present it in fragmentary form, arranged by neighborhood (along with other, more arbitrary, "systemic" criteria). The Access series was especially distinguished by its use of colored text and other intrusive graphic devices to reflect editorial judgments regarding restaurants, museums, parks, and other categorical destinations, and generally to interpret the urban fabric for visitors presumably unable to do so for themselves.
Wurman was made an AIA Fellow in 1976 and entered the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. He was a 2004 Gold Medalist of the AIGA – formerly the American Institute of Graphic Arts – which honored him as a design conference impresario.[4] He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.[5] A current project known as 19.20.21. is an attempt to create and standardize measurement tools as a means of understanding cities.[6]
Wurman chaired the IDCA Conference in 1972, the First Federal Design assembly in 1973, and the annual AIA Conference in 1976. He is perhaps best known for having cofounded and chaired the TED conference from 1984 thru 2002, bringing together various thinkers in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design. He also created the TEDMED conference (1995-2010) and the e.g. conference in 2006.
In 1976, Wurman coined the phrase "information architect" in response to the large amount of information generated in contemporary society, which is often presented with little care or order. Wurman said, "I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systemic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it."
In 1978, he served as the Dean for the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design.
In 1984, he created the TED conference, and spoke about it at the 30th anniversary TED conference.
Wurman created the Access series of travel guidebooks,[when?] which incorporated idiosyncratic efforts to dissect mapping content and present it in fragmentary form, arranged by neighborhood (along with other, more arbitrary, "systemic" criteria). The Access series was especially distinguished by its use of colored text and other intrusive graphic devices to reflect editorial judgments regarding restaurants, museums, parks, and other categorical destinations, and generally to interpret the urban fabric for visitors presumably unable to do so for themselves.
Wurman was made an AIA Fellow in 1976 and entered the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. He was a 2004 Gold Medalist of the AIGA – formerly the American Institute of Graphic Arts – which honored him as a design conference impresario. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. A current project known as 19.20.21. is an attempt to create and standardize measurement tools as a means of understanding cities.
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