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Ensemble de bague de fiançailles bague Citrine de 5 par preciousjd. Rough Diamond Triple Stack Gemstone Rings anneaux par EarthDiamond. 7 | Infographic: 4,000 Years Of Human History Captured In One Retro Chart. If time is a river, the Histomap, created by John B. Sparks and first published by Rand McNally back in 1931, is a raging Mississippi. In that massive river of time, each of humanity’s great civilizations becomes a confluence that ebbs, wanes, and sometimes ebbs again, each a separate current in a river that inexorably rages down to the mouth of the present day. Although certainly not modern, the Histomap is still a breathtaking example of good infographic design: A five-foot, roll-up chart that can fit an overview of human history on any wall. Starting in 2000 B.C. with seven different civilizations--the Aegeans, the Egyptians, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Iranians, the Indians, the Huns, and the Chinese--you travel forward or backward in time as your eyes move up or down 0.75 inches.

Some civilizations bleed together, others are swallowed up; some surge, others crash. While the X-axis indicates time in Sparks’ Histomap, the Y-axis appears to indicate the size of each empire. Watch: How Adobe Illustrator Changed Graphic Design. In the pre-Adobe Illustrator age, graphic design was a tedious, meticulous analog process: it could take a day to set one page of type, and then maybe a temperamental Rapidograph pen would explode ink all over the page.

Physically cutting and pasting required actual scissors instead of just hitting ctrl-X and ctrl-V. With the launch of Adobe Illustrator in 1987, “it was like magic,” as designer Ron Chan puts it. In this mini-documentary by Terry Hemphill that tells the story of the revolutionary software, designers like Jessica Hische, Ron Chan, Bert Monroy, and Dylan Roscover, as well as Adobe co-founder John Warnock, recount the pivotal moment when computers became indispensable design tools. Prior to Illustrator there was PostScript, a software Warnock developed in the mid-'80s. "You could have any size type. You could squash it and stretch it. "When Illustrator went into beta, I wanted to do a drawing that would express something you absolutely couldn't program," Warnock says. Le Journal des Vitrines — les plus belles vitrines des plus beaux magasins, par Stéphanie Moisan.

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