The Art of Information The Art of Information Information arts are the thoughtful arrangement of data. A chapter title in a book, for instance, is a composition of word data.
Information arts have many functions.
The print medium has pages, headings, and captions that help the reader navigate through a book or magazine, and each is a highly evolved information art form. Our familiarity with the book form makes the comprehension of its information arts, second nature. Anyone who picks up a book knows where to find the bibliography, the index, and the table of contents. The digital equivalent of this art form does not exist. Because digital media have no tactile depth, we have a limited understanding of the size of a body of work - whereas in the print medium, we just have to leaf through a book to get that information.