WHEN IS INFORMATION too much information? When the viewer is so overwhelmed by input that it’s impossible to take anything in. There may well be some vital message on this hospital notice board – after all, it does deal with the tricky issue of infection control – but you’d be hard pressed to find it among the mass of verbiage.

Take this clothing label. Or, rather, these four clothing labels, all clustered together. They contain barcodes, washing instructions, sizes and contact information in multiple languages.

I have to ask: does a tee shirt really need this level of explanation? Or do they simply serve some obscure legal obligation?