A bibliography about information design of all sorts of labels.

Compiled by:
Karel van der Waarde
2024

A. Labelling studies
1. Enable purchasing
- Nutritional value of food
- Energy labels
- Climate impact: food
- Eco score & label
- Sustainability label
- Organic logo

2. Enable use
- Signage and wayfinding
- Traffic signs

3. Enable disposal
- Sorting labels
- Plastic packaging
- Compostable packaging
- Deposit return schemes
- Electrical waste (WEEE)

4. Purchasing and use
- Textile care labels

5. Use and disposal
- Medicine labelling
- Tobacco packaging

6. All three
- Machine readable code
- Warnings

7. None
- Chasing arrows triangle
- Green dot

B. Design artefacts
Packaging
Labels
Text
Pictograms

C. Design process
Principles
Participatory design
Evaluation

D. References
Articles
Books
Standards
Websites

Colofon & notes

Background
This bibliography supports an European project on the harmonisation of waste sorting labels on packaging and waste receptacles in Member States.

Please contact Dr. Karel van der Waarde if there are mistakes or omissions.

Copyrights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Affiliations
Dr Karel van der Waarde.
Scholar/Principal Graphic Design - Research,
Elewijt, Belgium.
e-mail: waarde@glo.be