Last weekend I took a walk through Prospect Park and meandered to the LeFrak Center, the ice rink completed in 2014 by TWBTA. I enjoyed a tour of the grounds guided by the project manager Andy Kim as part of Open House New York back in 2018. One of the most striking elements of the... Continue Reading →
04/06: Diagrams of Diagrams
This post, like yesterday's, is a reproduction of an assignment for a class called Visual Epistemologies taught at PennDesign by Orkan Telhan. The assigment asks for summary, quotations, questions and personal responses. Today's writing is on Diagrams of Diagrams by Anthony Vidler. Anthony Vidler sketches out a thorough history of the use of the diagram as... Continue Reading →
02/28: The Innocent Infographic
"Information does not exist in a natural state, available to the light of reason in the form of knowledge ordered to display itself in a self-evident way. Not at all.- if that would be the case, designers would only have to follow the natural way of presenting information. ...the distance between us and Edward Tufte:... Continue Reading →