Mapped Images Provide Understanding
As Edward Tufte argues in Beautiful Evidence, mapped pictures combine “representational images with scales, diagrams, overlays, numbers, words, and images,” (p.13). Mapped pictures are very complex as...
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This past week in our graduate course on Information Architecture with Professor Bill Wolff, we’ve explored techniques and design philosophies centered on information display. Our discussion was...
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This past week, we read and discussed former Formula One racer Franco Moretti’s book, Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History. While his layout might not be the most...
View ArticleAn Infographic on the Importantance of Breakfast!
Reflection 1 I originally started out wanting to create an infographic on waffles, but I ran into a dilemma: what is there really to say about waffles? This is when I realized that there is so much...
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Reflection 1 As a huge baseball fan, I wanted to find an aspect of the sport I could make an interesting presentation on (instead of Hey, so-and-so can still throw X amount of curve balls after X...
View Article#iamondays How to Write E-Lit
On Twitter, Devon posted this: Which is a link that leads us to this: The “Fun da mentals” of e-lit. A very old image to teach us how to do something new. When I first saw this picture, I was...
View ArticleTreaty of Greens: Generate this! (Reflections)
Treaty of Greens (generative poem) Reflection 1 As a person who isn’t that into traditional poetry, I was less than enthused with an assignment that was labeled as “generative poetry.” In traditional...
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I sat at a red light one day on my way home from work. I noticed the bumper sticker on the car in front of me, which said, “Proud parent of a homeschooled student,” or something to that effect. I...
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