Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2009

I remember reading an article about writing interpretive copy in an old edition of the Interpretation journal. To illustrate his point, the author was trying to describe a nautilus, the rather splendid, spirally, motile marine mollusc. After about 30 words of convoluted description and the tortured avoidance of technical terms, he concluded: “Don’t be daft, use an illustration instead!” That piece of advice struck a chord, and in this edition of the journal, 15 years later, we celebrate the place of illustrations in interpretation.

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