%% apa:: Large, M. (2001). Communication among all people, everywhere: Paul Arthur and the maturing of design. _Design Issues,_ _17_(2), 81-90. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1511877 %% # Communication Among All People, Everywhere: Paul Arthur and the Maturing of Design --- Large, M. (2001). Communication among all people, everywhere: Paul Arthur and the maturing of design. _Design Issues,_ _17_(2), 81-90. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1511877 ^apa --- ## Metadata title: Communication Among All People, Everywhere: Paul Arthur and the Maturing of Design author:: Michael Large cite-key:: large2001CommunicationAllPeople date_published:: 04/2001 url:: [https://direct.mit.edu/desi/article/17/2/81-90/60013](https://direct.mit.edu/desi/article/17/2/81-90/60013) doi:: [10.1162/07479360152383804](https://doi.org/10.1162/07479360152383804) Type: Journal article keywords:: [[Paul Arthur]], [[Expo 1967 Montreal]] --- ## Notes - The title references a paper by Margaret Mead and Rudolph Modley, “Communication Among All People, Everywhere” which Large notes Modley was a mentor to [[Paul Arthur|Arthur]]. - #followup This may be a good paper to review about graphic symbols in general. - A shift towards user-centred and research-based approach in design. - Large posits that [[Paul Arthur|Arthur’s]] fifty-year career can act as a paradigm representation the maturation of communication design. [[Paul Arthur|Arthur]], a Canadian, worked across the United States and Europe (therefore the paradigm Large is examining is a Western-centric understanding of experiential design). - Large is working from taped interviews with [[Paul Arthur]], focused on his career in wayfinding (built environment, as well as digital). - Paper focuses on [[Paul Arthur|Arthur’s]] “growing sense of design’s social mission” by looking at the functional aspects of design to improve quality of life. - Graphic design as part of an interdisciplinary system > Trying to meet the needs of a vast and varied audience grappling with the problems of an increasingly complex environment, Arthur was an early exponent of graphic design as part of an interdisciplinary system, integrated with other aspects of communication and spatial planning. - [[Paul Arthur]] was a founding member of [[Society for Experiential Graphic Design]] (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1973). ## Further Reading? - Margaret Mead and Rudolph Modley, “Communication Among All People, Everywhere” *Natural History* (August–September 1968) - Profiles on [[Paul Arthur]] - “A Good Sign: Paul Arthur gets the Order of Canada” *Graphic Design Journal* 1:3 (The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, Ottawa 1995) - “Paul Arthur” in Sara Pendergast, ed. *Contemporary Designers* (Detroit: St. James Press, 1996, third edition) -