Daily Archives: December 12, 2011

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

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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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