Lecture 9....Notes

I was currently absent from class today as I had a doctors appointment. I received the reading for this week from Belinda. I have completely the reading and put notes up for it under the heading (week 10). I currently do not have notes for this lesson as I was away but from what I was told you spoke about week 8's reading (which I already went through with you in class in week 8) and you did more of the metaphor assignment (which I also went through with you in week 8).

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Disecting the Brief

My two designers I am doing for my information graphic 
- David Carson
- Adrian Frutiger

a. Timeline
    - direction
    - type of line
    - could it be a shape?

b. Two typographers
    - consider their context
    - place
    - time and culture
    - political and social events
    - influences
    - theory or ideology/manifesto*

*manifesto - less is more? - no ornament/decoration --> not emotional --> reductionism

c. Two examples - Otto Neurath developed the first info-graphics --> an international facinated from boyhood by Egyptian --> especially because they depicted day to day images unlike Greek and Roman varzus of antiquity.

Hieroglyphs - he was always interested in visual innovation and the difference between visual information and art.
His work had a purpose.