and to continue the defining series…this post needs to think through a few issues before I can define the blur of words I have co-opted over the years to describe the kind of communication I hope the images evoke.
I want to be able to pin down how I am using words like ambiguous, open-ended etc, [...]
The previous three posts have been trying to help me understand how I define the form of the designs I am advocating (similar to how in an earlier post I attempted to define the subject). To follow are some terms and definitions I have translated from real ones to describe how I am using these [...]
Even if I did resolve that I should refer to the finished pieces as visual essays, I don’t feel I have got much closer to describing the form of the essay itself. The conclusion at the end of the previous post: “I map the terrain I am exploring through visually imagining concepts…” suggests the nature [...]
Re-reading the propositional diagram post I feel that perhaps I was missing the point when I wrote it.
True, Lawson was writing from a limited perspective of what a diagram can be, but he also saw the role of the diagram as one that was speaking to facts, conditions, realities, and not new ideas. By his [...]
Yet another post that make sense of some of the terms I have been using. I looked up definitions for mapping, visualizations, diagrams and visual essay, and felt still somewhat unsure given the specific communication objective I associate with my images.
The words ‘map’ and ‘visualize’ were most open to accommodate my intention. Map had strong [...]