Tag: Sheila Pontis
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1868-2008
Last week, while I was searching for some images and I found this video. I made it a couple of years ago in my first visit to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Even though, the London Underground network has kept growing since 2008, I think that the video is quite interesting. It shows…
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magic napkins
Thanks to a comment, I borrowed from the library The back of the Napkin. Dan Roam, the author, emphasises the power of visual thinking through simple drawings. Beyond the book content, one thing that really got my attention was the used of Napkins to draw: ”˜so I pulled a pen from my suit pocket and…
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where is the toilet, Sr.?
Let’s analyse some images. 01. New bus station. Mar del Plata (Argentina). This is one of the biggest summer tourists’ cities of the country. I was there (in the new bus station!) for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and the first thing I noticed was its Wayfinding System (I will discuss it…
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Design Fundamentals
–> “Hasta la publicación de esta obra, un níºmero considerable de artistas (y diseñadores) y estudiosos ha dependido de textos en idiomas extranjeros para satisfacer su creciente necesidad de información con respecto a los fascinantes problemas de la creación plástica (arte, diseño) y su relación con la percepción visual” He encontrado este texto sumamente interesante,…
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organising literature & practice review
I have been almost the last four weeks ”˜diving’ into my literature & practice review. One thing that I found extremely helpful was to have a previous organisation of authors, subjects and fields, and, at the same time, from different points of view. As I did a very systematic and well-organised material classification, I realised…
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how would you define a diagram?
Yesterday, a friend, who is also doing her PhD related to diagrams (University of Granada), sent me an email asking me that question. She also sent me a kind of research she has been done in Google images. She introduced the word ‘diagram’ in English, Spanish and German in Google images and the results were…
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Less and more
This is the title of Dieter Rams’ exhibition at the Design Museum. Rams was in charged of the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Braun, for more than 40 years, developing a synthetic, rigorous and pure visual language for its products. In this exhibition can be appreciated how his principles of design were applied in and followed…
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diagrammatic-writing-up method
Last Wednesday I attended to one of the RNUAL lectures (UAL) about how to approach writing up problems (essays, papers, chapters, thesis). As a first general conclusion, to approach this problem, the best strategy is to have a clear framework –a plan? – as a starting point. This means, to know exactly what to write…
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what does it mean?
Some terms related to diagrams (and also to design) strategies, language, layout, and so on are often misused or misunderstood: – When is a diagram simple? – When a diagram is simple is because it has few elements”¦ and when it has more elements it becomes complex and less clear.. – Additional information is useless…
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The Guardian Data Store, a place for visualising content
Data Store is an interesting section of The Guardian where everyone can submit their own diagrams and information graphics. The aim of this section is to make complex information more accessible to people. Facts and figures are published using accessible tools that enable everyone to download raw information for creating visualisations. Diagrams can be submitted…
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how can I get from… to…?
Some doubts related to the meaning of diagrams reference elements and their geographical range variable seemed to emerge from the workshops (Barcelona–London). In order to clarify these concepts I will explain their differences and importance with an example of a recent personal experience: I have just returned from a four-day break in south Spain. As…
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