DATA VISUALIZATION

Information Is Beautiful

By David McCandless

"A visual guide to the way the world really works Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we're steeped in it, maybe even lost in it. We need a new way to relate to it, to discover the beauty and the fun of information for information's sake. No dry facts, theories or statistics. Instead, Information is Beautiful contains visually stunning displays of information that blend the facts with their connections, their context and their relationships - making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful. This is information like you have never seen it before - keeping text to a minimum and using unique visuals that offer a blueprint of modern life - a map of beautiful colour illustrations that are tactile to hold and easy to flick through but intriguing and engaging enough to study for hours."

This was David McCandless lecture about 'The Beauty of data visualization'.
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INTERNET

Tim Berners-Lee conceived the internet. He also developed the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). Which all took place between between 1989 and 1991. He was also names as an "Internet Daddy".

More information about the 'History of the Internet' is in this link:
http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm

A website is a set of related pages containing a contents such as text, video audio etc. A website is hosted on a web server which is normally set on numerous computers with web pages. All publicly accesive websites collectively constitute World Wide Web (Internet).

A webpage is a document typically written in plain text controlled with formatting instructions with hypertext make up language (HTML). Webpages are acessed and transported with the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

Pages are accessed via browser. Browsers are softwares that enables us to access HTML pages.

Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books followed the laws of Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus people about what shapes to use and the way of designing things when making a font. Although she followed the principles of the Bauhaus school is she still considered an author? I think she should get the credit because she came up with a design of her own. The true type font "Herbert" is inspired by sketches of Herbert Bayer, well-known Bauhaus graphic designer and typographer.
Herbert is a low contrast display typography whose function is mutually aligned in the correct blocks. It consists of 3 section that is characterized by different width of individual letters that are in the process of settlement in order to achieve different align blocks of text.

In my essay I mentioned Ellen Lupton and Wolfgang Weingart. Rock considers Weingart to have both technical proficiency and stylistic signature however; it is harder to determine whether he has vision and interior meaning. Rock says, “graphic auteurs would have to have produced large established bodies of work in which discernible patterns emerged” for us to gage whether they have an interior meaning. As a designer I think that someone who creates something must be recognized because if they are not recognized they will stop producing. As a consumer we also need their work to be labelled as it helps us to distinguish what we want to read, view or watch. All creators work in a consumer market and their reputation as an author is what authenticates them.

The ABCs of [circle, square, triangle]: The Bauhaus and Design Theory. Written and designed by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott miller

REMIX CULTURE

Remix culture is combining or editing existing marierials to produce a new product. This includes any changes such as the design of the footage, adding effects or adding or the changing the music etc.

The God of Remix Culture Lawrence Lessing:

"For more than a decade, we’ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century’s model of “copyright law.” In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in “remix.” We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new “hybrid economy” — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate."

This image is an example of remix culture design.
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One example of remix is wikipedia. It allows people to add their creativity and knowledge. It allows people to remix the information that is presented.

A mashup for the Total Recut Video Remix Challenge 2008 - "What is Remix Culture?"

“The activity of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms”(Navas, 2007).