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Monthly Archives: December 2011
FINAL MUSINGS
I remember hearing the word ‘aesthetics’ for the first time when I was in my Higher secondary school. The concept was introduced to me in a course of “Film Appreciation”. The teacher then spoke of the importance of aesthetics in … Continue reading
STITCH BITCH
“Stitch Bitch” by Shelley Jackson from “Rethinking Media Change” was an interesting piece of reading. From all the comments I heard and read about I thought it was really going to be a pain in the butt having to read … Continue reading
STORY OF STUFF
The story of stuff is a great educational site. Watching the series I found that their “documentaries”are very effective tools for education, conscientization, social awareness etc. Rather than commenting on the content of the “documentaries”, which are eminently valuable, I wish … Continue reading
HILLMAN CURTIS
Hilllman Curtis’ “Deposition Espirito Santo” is a very watchable short movie. The work of Iran do Esprito Santo is about the sense of “void”, and empty spaces. Void can be considered not only visually but also audibly. From both the … Continue reading
Lists Are Good
As I sit here writing this blog (which was supposed to be due by midnight last night) I’m very aware of the design process as a whole (especially since I just pulled an all-nighter to finish a project for this … Continue reading
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BROADCAST DESIGN
HARRY MARKS Good type matters because type speaks to you. You can explore type in the most infinite ways, because the possibility of scale is infinite. It’s very important to know the rules because once you know them you can … Continue reading
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JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF DATA
The best way to learn about visualization is to make them, the same way that people learned about typography and desktop publishing. The results where not that good in the beginning but now people have gotten good at it. With … Continue reading
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Toward an Aesthetics of Transition
Maybe some of these “doomsayers” are correct; maybe the digital revolution will mean the death of the book. More and more now we can download just about any book we want. Also, look at what the digital revolution has done … Continue reading
essays on design
Michael Bierut looks at design through several different lenses. When he wrote about Nabokav’s novel as being a well-designed piece of literature, it made me think of one of the designer interviews that I watched earlier in the semester. One … Continue reading
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Musings
This semester I have learned about the importance of visual aesthetics in information design. In studying the subject matter, I have become much more aware of all of the design that I see every day. Because we are exposed to … Continue reading
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