On my way to work one morning, I noticed that someone took the time to make this “statement”. This is graffiti in the first degree–it takes some premeditation to get the roll of tape, the marker, and walk out this sign and carefully cover up the right letters. Or maybe it’s some activist construction worker from the nearby condo building site?
So, of course, out came the iPhone for a quick pic snap.
You’ve heard it before: “We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge“. Of course this isn’t an entirely new thought. There have been lots of elaborate methods proposed to combat this predicament we’re increasingly finding ourselves in. Google seems to do a good job of helping us out with sorting our data.
But I think the onus of meeting this challenge also lies somewhere else…
Wow, this is really cool. The visualization itself rocks. Then I read about the research and effort behind it…
There’s some really cool stuff happening in Vancouver. Here’s a kick-ass touch-screen project from my buds Alex and Brett featured last weekend at the Richmond Winter Festival–
I realize that this article is about more than the SearchMash ”controversy”, but I want to comment on that aspect for a moment and leave the explicit thieves aside for now…
Design is meant to be consumed. When we create “designs”, we are communicating to an audience. For effective communication to take place, we need to communicate using forms and modes that are in keeping with the visual language of the audience which we are communicating with.