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Richard Saul Wurman



Richard Saul Wurman is an American architect and graphic designer best known for being the founder of TED Conferences, among other conference series. In addition, Wurman has written dozens of books with topics ranging from architecture to information design, all of which focus on making information visual and accessible.

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TED Founder Richard Saul Wurman: Give Yourself Permission to Follow Your Nose

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Information Anxiety

Information Anxiety offers a cure for the uneasiness most people feel daily as they're overwhelmed with facts and data pretending to be useful information. With simple, creative guidance, this book teaches readers how to learn what they want to learn from the media and other communication sources.

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Information Anxiety: Towards Understanding

Richard Saul Wurman describes his work as the promotion of understanding. “I am in the understanding business,” he writes. As the founder of TED conferences, his projects and writing examine information, architecture, design, and communication.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something.

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Conversation with Richard Saul Wurman "One Way": Richard Saul Wurman at TEDxGrandRapids

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Understanding USA

Consists of statistical graphs that explain the state of America at the Millennium.

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Design Your Life

A conversation with Richard Saul Wurman — founder of TED, a conference that since 1984 has evolved into one of the world's most eagerly anticipated and influentials summits — allows Brendan McGetrick to distill the seven secrets of a "Highly Effective Person".

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TED Founder Can't Stop Learning!

Richard Saul Wurman, author, architect, and creator of the TED conference proudly embraces his ignorance as part and parcel of his life-long quest to learn. In this episode of Epiphany, Wurman explores information anxiety, shares his five principles of innovation, reveals the secret to learning

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Information Architects

This groundbreaking book, now available in paperback, reports on an explosive new design field: the design of information to improve, clarify, and facilitate processes of communication and learning.

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Lifeboat #5: Richard Saul Wurman

A conversation with Richard Saul Wurman an architect, a city planner, a human designer, a writer, a communicator, an educator, and a whole lot of other things that it would be tough to put a label on.

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