Acknowledgments

It took many villages to make this book. Special thanks to:

Jessica Fagerhaugh, Tim Kenney, and Patrick Mirza for pivotal editing and kickstarting, even house calls. Thanks to Jeff Young for the same, plus photos, tech help, regular meals (did I say love?), and the benefit of the encyclopedia in his head. And thanks to four brilliant final-chapter reviewers who are responsible for improving this book beyond description, but not for any errors or inconsistencies that remain because I didn't have time to fix them: Ginny Redish (also for frequently sharing her abundant wisdom, hospitality, library, and referrals), Stephen Kosslyn (also for his insightful tours inside the eye and brain), Alex W. White (also for contributing so much to the type chapter, including type samples), and Jan V. White, clarity king (also for inspiring and guiding me over decades, and for handing me one of his unpublished—always perfect—articles).

Also, thanks to Kim Farcot for ongoing support and help and all-around sweetness; to Nigel Holmes, Nathan Shedroff, and Alina Wheeler for each referring enough friends to fill ten books (to Alina also for ongoing support and connecting me with her editor, now mine); to Margaret Cummins; to Robin Landa and Elizabeth Resnick for generously responding to my cold calls and sharing their book-business smarts; to Stefan Bucher for always brilliant brainstorming; to Tom Piwowar, Nanda Piwowar, and Ron Northrip for keeping my computer updated and happy for the duration (also to Tom for provocative debates); to Petra Algerova and Wally Burns for smart, thorough help with research (to Petra also for countless other book-support services and much-needed distractions); to Conrad Taylor for enlightening and entertaining calls and letters.

Many thanks, too, to those who generously contributed

… time, insights, and artwork: Aries Arditi; Carolyn Bagin; Ellie Barber; Burkey Belser; Sudhir Bhatia; Roger Black; Ken Carbone; Patrick Cavanagh; Dan Chen; Michael Chesman; Allen Coté; Kelley Dragonette; Lea Eiseman; Bob Erickson; Ann Firth; Felicia Garrett; Maria Giudice with Renee Anderson, Laura Haertling, and Clancy Nolan; John Grimwade; Peter Haack; Carla Hall with Kate Dautrich; Lars Harmsen; Gordon Hoeft; Nigel Holmes; Tony Julien; Joel Katz (who even redrew—in full color—three versions of a discarded preliminary sketch for this book); Stephen Kosslyn; Sanjay Koyani; Steve Krug; Jake Lefebure; Dave Merrill; Paul Mijksenaar; Dennis Powell; Whitney Quesenbery; Angelo Ragaza; Ginny Redish; Margaret Saliba; Phil Sawyer; Steven Schattman; Irene Jackson Schon; Eric Seidman; Nathan Shedroff; Bill Simmons; Jerry Snider; Sharon Stark; Marc Stoiber; Mark Sylvester; Greg Thomas; Colin Wheildon; Alex W. White; Jan V. White; and Richard Saul Wurman.

… research, syllabi, student exercises, and lesson plans: Carol Barnum, Gordon Drummond, Dave Farkas, and Karla Kitalong.

… artwork: Carol Anderson, Dieter Braun, Bill Cahan, Jeanie Comstock, Sean Culhane, Gary Drake, Jaimey Easler, Marian Emr, Britt Fagerheim, Kelly Groff, Dan Hoffman, Mirko Ilić, Noah Iliinsky, George Jones, Robin Latham, Dan Levin, Isaac Mizrahi, Eileen Rinkus, Melanie Sasse, Laurie Sims, Michael Stone, George Tscherny, Barbara Tversky, Deb Unger, Jill Wachter, Sam Wilson, and Penny Wright.

… additional help: Claire Duggart, Linda Jorgensen, Bruce Martin, James Reston Jr., Patti Schwartz, Deb Tompkins, and Virginia Von Fremd.

And many thanks always to Mark Beach, a most generous and understanding mentor/teacher; Les Greenberg, like Mark a printing genius; Gus Miller, the art teacher who taught me to see; Vincent Palumbo, master stone carver, master life teacher; Polly Pattison, newsletter-design and people-connecting maven; Ed Peskowitz, writing guru and benefactor; Fred Showker, longtime design buddy and tech adviser; and Jeff Young, Shirley and Nat Lipton, and Millie Young.