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Wayfinding and Social Platforms. Download this gallery (ZIP, null KB) Download full size (74 KB) “The heart of civilization throbs wherever people come together to work, play, shop, study, perform, worship, or just interact. Crowded into bustling spaces, they share the richness and diversity of human experience as well as its challenges. Throughout history, people natural gravitate to city centers and the public places where all the action is. Download full size (215 KB) The book got me thinking about the similarities between wayfinding and the social web. Beyond the architectural and graphic cues, wayfinding also relies on tactile communication - a form of nonverbal communication or body language in which touching, handshaking, kissing, etc. conveys a message from sender to receiver. Download full size (107 KB) The interesting thing about wayfinding design for physical locations is that it must be usable by both locals and tourists.

The ages of globalization : geography, technology, and institutions "Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale, and this history deeply informs the present. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

The Digital Past: When Typefaces Were Experimental Voice asked me to do a post-digital exploration of type to see if a new “experimental” stage was in the wings. But the more I thought about his request, the more I felt it was necessary to look back at the history of digital type design and sort out what really happened before trying to look ahead. Introduction In the early 1990s, the term “experimental” came to be associated with fonts displayed in Emigre magazine. A number of those fonts were worthy of the label, but in the ensuing years “experimental” was attached to any typeface that seemed to be outside the norm. It came to mean wild, radical or weird. Instead of looking solely, or even primarily, at such “experimental” fonts I have chosen to list typefaces that for one reason or another—technological, ideological, conceptual, cultural or even aesthetic—broke new ground in the digital era. Digi-Grotesk S Marconi Bell Centennial Chicago AMS Euler Adobe Times Roman and Adobe Helvetica Lucida Serif and Lucida Sans Citizen Matrix TF Forever Remer

Against Empathy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2016 book by psychologist Paul Bloom The book received mixed reviews. Some reviewers critiqued Bloom's case "against empathy," maintaining their belief that empathy is a useful tool.[2] Definition of Empathy[edit] Paul Bloom defines empathy the way that Adam Smith describes sympathy in Theory of Moral Sentiments. Powers and limitations of empathy[edit] Bloom develops his case for "rational compassion" by discussing acts of kindness and altruism. Empathy versus Compassion[edit] Bloom also explains C. To further his argument, Bloom describes effective altruism and its relationship with cost-benefit analysis decision making. Rational decision making[edit] Bloom finishes the book by explaining how empathy is related to anger and evil. Reception[edit] This book received mixed reviews. See also[edit] Identifiable victim effect References[edit]

Typo-L : The Crystal Goblet The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible by Beatrice Warde (1900 -- 1969) Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favourite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour. Bear with me in this long-winded and fragrant metaphor; for you will find that almost all the virtues of the perfect wine-glass have a parallel in typography. Now the man who first chose glass instead of clay or metal to hold his wine was a 'modernist' in the sense in which I am going to use that term. Wine is so strange and potent a thing that it has been used in the central ritual of religion in one place and time, and attacked by a virago with a hatchet in another. If you agree with this, you will agree with my one main idea, i.e. that the most important thing about printing is that it conveys thought, ideas, images, from one mind to other minds. London 1955.

Eduardo Galeano Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo ɣaleˈano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".[1] Galeano's best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia Author Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling Life[edit] Works[edit] Death[edit] Awards and honors[edit]

The optimism of modernity : what Alejo Carpentier Cuban novelist (1904 - 1980) Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: ​[kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. With a developed knowledge of music, Carpentier explored musicology, publishing an in-depth study of the music of Cuba, La música en Cuba and integrated musical themes and literary techniques throughout his works. Carpentier's writing style integrated the resurgent Baroque style, or New World Baroque style that Latin American artists adopted from the European model and assimilated to the Latin American artistic vision. Life[edit] Early life and education[edit] Cuba and exile in France[edit] Later life[edit]

Reduce to the max by Max Bruinsma Reduce to the max by Max Bruinsma A reduced and expanded exploration of Swiss design and culture across the 20th century. For about three quarters of a century now, the phrase ‘Neue Schweizer Grafik’ (’New Swiss Graphic Design’) has been more than a denotative combination of words - it has become a brand name. Büro Destruct On the other hand it is fairly obvious that the new ‘Neue Grafik’ has to dealwith rather different conditions and contexts than the ‘old’. Müller + Hess Here, I think, we are at the root of what could still be discerned as ‘Swiss’ within the global culture of design: a sense for structural order that one could call typographic, not primarily because it deals with type, but because it is deeply concerned with balance and proportion. Sonderegger As an observer from outside the country, this strikes me as being the core of the ‘Swissness’ of contemporary Swiss design. Müller + Hess © Max Bruinsma, Amsterdam.

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Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014) Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾkes] ( García Márquez started as a journalist and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. Upon García Márquez's death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Journalism[edit] QAP[edit]