Archive for February, 2007
"No!" says the signified
How frustrating. Like many people (namely readers of Boing Boing) I saw the new radiation symbol released this morning by the IAEA. Like many people, I thought it was terrible. I drafted a few thoughts to blog this evening.
And then along came Andrew Crow from good old Adaptive Path, to pre-empt everything I was about [...]
Delettering public space
Europeans really know how to execute large-scale public art:
The installation “Delete! Delettering public space” saw all non-essential signage in a Vienna district covered for a fortnight. It would have been fascinating to see how people navigated the streets without their usual visual prompts. Not particularly well, I’d wager.
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Installation consternation
Here’s one for This Is Broken: installing the trial version of Axure, only to be warned that I should close it before I install it.
Very busy. Working on a few quite big things, one of which is to read Don Quixote. When the pace slows down perhaps I’ll share my plans.
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WordCount
I rediscovered an old site I’d meant to post about long ago: WordCount. It’s another of those interesting visualisation tools, this time showing the commonality of English words. Derived from Oxford University’s British National Corpus of 100 million words, it’s an obvious practical example of the long tail. Since we get by on an estimated [...]