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Typographic town logos in hiragana/katakana

Typographic town logos in hiragana/katakana
[Typographic logo for Kamagaya (Chiba) spells town name in katakana] Japanese town logos -- official symbols designed to communicate the identity of each municipality -- come in a vast array of shapes and colors. Many of these municipal symbols incorporate typographical elements (particularly kanji, hiragana, katakana, and Roman letters) into their designs. [Abiko, Chiba] A: Abiko's logo uses a stylized katakana ア (a) that symbolizes Lake Tega. [Itabashi, Tokyo] I: The picture-puzzle logo for Tokyo's Itabashi ward consists of the katakana イタ (ita) surrounded by four (shi) katakana ハ (ha) -- the katakana ハ (ha) is a variant of バ (ba). [Urakawa, Hokkaido] U: In Urakawa's design, a stylized kanji 河 (kawa) is surrounded by four sets of the katakana ウラ (ura), which represent the four municipalities that joined together in 1902 to form the current town. [Ebino, Miyazaki] E: Ebino's hiragana え (e) is in the shape of Mt. [Owase, Mie] [Kanoya, Kagoshima] [Kikai, Kagoshima] [Kumamoto, Kumamoto] [More]

Don Norman's jnd.org / Workarounds - Leading Edge of Innova Workarounds and Hacks: The Leading Edge of Innovation Column written for Interactions. © CACM, 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. For years I have been pondering the similarities and contradictions among the ways of coming up with new ideas for products. I have also pondered the emphasis by most practitioners, abetted by many product design courses, to invent novel products and services to fill the needs discovered through whatever form of design research the group practices. Where do new ideas come from? Do we need formal observational methods? Moreover, the great inventions that have changed our lives did not come into being using our ethnographic methods: they preceded the invention of these techniques. Does this mean that we should ignore the formal methods? I am not a fan of undirected, explorative ethnography. Hacks and workarounds. Many ordinary people use the objects around them in unordinary ways.

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Navidoc - connecting documentations via UML imagemaps (2003-06) The first public beta of Navidoc has been released at Savannah. Navidoc is a light-weigth tool built on top of several existing Free Software tools to connect HTML source code documentations to design documentation written in reStructuredText. The textual UML language, which Navidoc provides as custom Docutils directive, makes it possible to embed UML diagrams easily within design documentation body text. While Navidoc compiles design documentation using Docutils, it also extracts and compiles UML diagrams from their embedded textual descriptions. In addition that compiled diagrams are included in compiled design documentation pages, Navidoc also links diagrams' objects to corresponding source code documentation pages. This site has been made using Navidoc and it's textual UML description language. Navidoc has been developed as byproduct of Fenfire project at Savannah.

Generalization A generalization (or generalisation) of a concept is an extension of the concept to less-specific criteria. It is a foundational element of logic and human reasoning.[citation needed] Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements. The concept of generalization has broad application in many related disciplines, sometimes having a specialized context or meaning. Of any two related concepts, such as A and B, A is a "generalization" of B, and B is a special case of A, if and only if every instance of concept B is also an instance of concept A; andthere are instances of concept A which are not instances of concept B. Hypernym and hyponym[edit] The relation of generalization to specialization (or particularization) is reflected in the contrasting words hypernym and hyponym. Examples[edit] Biological generalization[edit] An animal is a generalization of a mammal, a bird, a fish, an amphibian and a reptile.

Motion Typography: 4 Approaches To Kinetic Text Be Sociable, Share! Static Versus Motion Typography In print and web design we spend a lot time trying to nail text down – to make it speak through its arrangement on the page, the selection of font, kerning, leading, space. Motion typography poses an entirely different set of challenges that simultaneously draw on these design concerns, while throwing a whole batch of other decisions into the mix. Motion typography as it exists today largely takes place in three dimensions – we have come to expect video to create the illusion of depth, unless a particularly super-flat approach is being foregrounded stylistically. Motion typographers have to consider not just the x and y positioning of text, then, but also its positioning within the z axis. In these four examples of motion typography in action, I have focused on examples in which the typography is the star of the show. Literal Illustration Of Language Rhythmic Embellishment Of Language Where there is motion, there is inevitably rhythm.

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