Posts By: Tony

Learn Code

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It has been a while since I visited Codecademy’s site—maybe a year or so. I followed them for a while when they first started up. The W3Schools tutorials are useful for the novice coder, but these folks have some super nice features. Go check it out. Whew—I thought I was missing something and I was: the rest of

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More Water Maps
(these are close to home)

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Over the last few days I’ve posted several information and educational design references. Of those, two had focus on water—where it flows and how much there is. Hope you have put the study on them and found good reason. Now here is a third submitted by Hannah with a view of Georgia. Take a look

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On Simultaneity

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The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. — William Gibson

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Name Map, plus

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Information design map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State If you view this link in an older browser, you may be entertained by some glitch art. For DIY glitch experiments: JPG Glitch

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On Text

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  Type is all nice and fine but I’ll take text any day.

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On Time

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Rooster Cogburn: I have prior business. Mattie Ross: You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn. Rooster Cogburn: There is no clock on my business! True Grit (2010)

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California Water Atlas
1979

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A broad-ranging set of information design and historical imagery in the CA Water Atlas. The full document can be viewed in high-resolution at Archive.org. The image below enlarges with click.

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Herbert Bayer
1953

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Timelines, Sequences, Maps—simultaneous and beautiful. The complete atlas is at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and is well worth a studied look. Details! Also, take a quick read of Steven Heller discussing the Atlas at Print Magazine and An Infographist is Just a Visual Journalist from Swiss Infographics.com

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Relevant and Worthy a Read

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There are three recent articles at Design Observer that you may find of particular value: The Millennial Designer The Four Lessons of Lou Dorfsman Shaping Design Education at Leap Symposium From Metropolis Magazine this month is a concise outline for approaching contemporary design (and learning): Notes From the Dean A few of us have talked

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Original Copy

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It is only graphic design or any of its cousins when it is published. Either requested from a server and distributed to many displays or pulled from a press and shared, it is the original when it is many. Saved singularly precious in a case under a bed, in a glass box, or pasted and

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New / Reminder
System

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Secret Law of Page Harmony (Retinart.net) Canons of Page Construction (Wikipedia) Grid (Thinking with Type) thegridsystem.org

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Donald Norman interview

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A short interview with Donald Norman was posted at Designers & Books today. His book, The Design of Everyday Things is being released in an updated edition this November. He makes comment on several things including open-source, human-centered design, and current design education. It is well worth a quick read and further look at the references

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Culture is __________ .

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Thanks to all of you who have been posting—it is good to see an online culture develop. Some of you mentioned  you were required to blog in the past and added that being required to participate soured it for you. I think (know) there are great benefits to writing, reading, forming online dialog, and just

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Art as Activist

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A few of you have talked to me about posters with a social or political message. One of the best books on the subject is Art as Activist which featured many Eastern European poster designers. An exhibit of the work was held at Marshall University a few years after the Berlin Wall came down. I

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