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Blind maps and blue dots : the blurring of the producer-user divide in the production of visual information
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ISBN: 9783037786581 3037786582 Year: 2021 Publisher: Zurich Lars Müller Publishers

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The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have blurred the distinction between designers and users of visual information. Blind Maps and Blue Dots is the first work to explore the disappearing boundaries between producers and users of maps. Using three mapmaking practices as examples - the Blue Dot, the location function in Google Maps; the Strava Global Heatmap, a world map showing the activities of a fitness app; and the 'Situation in Syria' maps, a regularly updated map of the Syrian conflict made by an Amsterdam teenager - renowned designer Joost Grootens shows the blurring of the binary distinction between producing and using, ultimately offering a whole new approach to graphic design.


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Op de kaart : hoe de wereld in kaart werd gebracht
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ISBN: 9789057595714 9057595710 9789460581120 9460581129 Year: 2013 Publisher: Antwerpen Amsterdam Luster Podium

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Geschiedenis van de cartografie.

Mental models : aligning design strategy with human behavior
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ISBN: 1933820063 9781933820064 Year: 2008 Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. Rosenfeld Media


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Information graphics
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ISBN: 9783836528795 3836528797 Year: 2012 Publisher: Keulen Taschen

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Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering this complex variety of data floating around us, sometimes the best -- or even only -- way to communicate is visually. This unique book presents a fascinating perspective on the subject, highlighting the work of the masters of the profession who have created a number of breakthroughs that have changed the way we communicate. Information Graphics has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually. The in-depth introductory section, illustrated with over 60 images (each accompanied by an explanatory caption), features essays by Sandra Rendgen, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Richard Saul Wurman, and Simon Rogers; looking back all the way to primitive cave paintings as a means of communication, this introductory section gives readers an excellent overview of the subject. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to contemporary works by today's most renowned professionals, presenting 200 graphics projects, with over 400 examples -- each with a fact sheet and an explanation of methods and objectives -- divided into chapters by the subjects Location, Time, Category, and Hierarchy."--Publisher description.

Placing words : symbols, space and the city.
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ISBN: 0262633221 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge MIT


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The Discipline of Organizing
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ISBN: 9780262313971 0262313979 9780262313964 0262313960 9780262518505 0262518503 0262313987 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press

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Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things -- books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers -- and digital things -- Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content of all media types without thinking "I'm organizing now" or "I'm retrieving now." This book offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR), bridging the disciplinary chasms between Library and Information Science and Computer Science, each of which views and teaches IO and IR as separate topics and in substantially different ways. It introduces the unifying concept of an Organizing System -- an intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they support -- and then explains the key concepts and challenges in the design and deployment of Organizing Systems in many domains, including libraries, museums, business information systems, personal information management, and social computing. Intended for classroom use or as a professional reference, the book covers the activities common to all organizing systems: identifying resources to be organized; organizing resources by describing and classifying them; designing resource-based interactions; and maintaining resources and organization over time. The book is extensively annotated with disciplinary-specific notes to ground it with relevant concepts and references of library science, computing, cognitive science, law, and business. - Publisher.


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Infographics : the power of visual storytelling.
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ISBN: 9781118314043 9781118420065 9781118421598 9781118431641 1118314042 9786613905031 1118420063 1118421590 1283592584 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hoboken John Wiley & Sons

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Transform your marketing efforts through the power of visual content In today's fast-paced environment, you must communicate your message in a concise and engaging way that sets it apart from the noise. Visual content - such as infographics and data visualization - can accomplish this. With DIY functionality, The Power of Infographics will teach you how to find stories in your data, and how to visually communicate and share them with your audience for maximum impact. The Power of Infographics will show you the vast potential to using the communication medium as a marketing tool by ...


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Paper knowledge : toward a media history of documents
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ISBN: 9780822356455 9780822356578 0822356570 0822356457 9780822356578 0822356570 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press

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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing, typing and carbon paper, mimeograph, microfilm, offset printing, photocopying, and scanning. Whether examining late-nineteenth-century commercial, or "job" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, Gitelman reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. She tells nuanced, anecdote-filled stories of the waning of old technologies and the emergence of new. Along the way, she discusses documentary matters such as the relation between twentieth-century technological innovation and the management of paper, and the interdependence of computer programming and documentation. Paper Knowledge is destined to set a new agenda for media studies. Review: "In this thoroughly media archaeological book, Lisa Gitelman folds media history and discovers its edges by diving deep into the flatland of documents, reading technologies of duplication and dissemination from 19th century job printing to today's PDF. With implications for archival and information science, comparative media, digital humanities, and the history (and future) of texts, Paper Knowledge will be read, referenced, and reproduced - which is exactly what we want our documents to do." - Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination "Four intriguing essay make up this tantalising and ambitious short book. Each starts at a vivid point in the overlapping history of media and technology, and proceeds to meander around an ink-stained group of colourful characters and long-forgotten committees...Through these windows on the recent past, [Gitelman] subjects printing, copying, documents and paper to an analysis that is both fresh and grounded in the practices and prejudices of media studies [...] The strength of this bold volume is in its argument that we can learn a great deal if we focus, not only on what information they contain but what institutional and social function they serve; not what they're bound about but what they do." - Times Higher Education "Gitelman practices a kind of conceptual archeology without obeisance to the master, in an argument that stands well on its own... It's the first of the author's books I have read, but it won't be the last." - Inside Higher Ed

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