Recently added articles from Visible Language:
DESIGN LITERACY, DISCOURSE AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Presented primarily in the context of graduate education in design, this paper argues that apprentice-master pedagogical models of learning andthe development of exclusively tacit knowledge are inadequate resources for preparing the next generation of high level design ...
PALIMPSEST: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Palimpsest is a manuscript or parchment that has been reused by writing over the original writing, sometimes more than once. Scarcity has driven this practice of reuse. Here it is expanded into an appreciation of a representation that reveals past and present as the core for the ...
UNDERSTANDING DIAGRAMS: A POINTER TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGRAMMING SOFTWARE
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The richness of diagrams is a characteristic reflected in their continuous use by humans over millennia across many applications and disciplines. Discussion of this richness is often expressed in one of two ways: either in terms of the constraints of the particular application ...
THE NEW WAY OF MAKING FONTS WITH DTL FONT MASTER
Sep 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Software for professional font production appearing recently, DTL Font Master, is like no other program of its kind in its configuration and functions. This article is about the program, its new and improved features in type design and production, through the eyes of a ...
SKITTISH SKIRTS AND SCANTY SILHOUETTES: THE TRIBULATIONS OF GENDER IN MODERN SIGNAGE
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Signage, traffic signs and way-finding systems are the focus. Whether the pictograms used in such systems may be said to work through mechanisms of visual metaphor or not is the question addressed here, they certainly use pictures of individual objects to express abstract ...