March 2012
32 posts
“But one museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, is testing crowd-sourcing on a limited scale with a program called uCurate — by the Clark’s account, the first program of its kind. Come this autumn, one gallery at the Clark, in Williamstown, Mass., will be arranged based on the design of a nonprofessional visitor, and the room will be reinstalled several more times in the coming two years based on other proposals from the public. The guest curators will even get to work with the Clark’s staff on wall texts.”
—Clark Museum to Let the Public Help Shape a Gallery Exhibition - NYTimes.com
“More than 80,000 of Albert Einstein’s papers, including his most famous formula — E=mc² — and letters to and from his former mistresses, are going online at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro says on All Things Considered, “what the trove uncovers is a picture of complex man who was concerned about the human condition” as well as the mysteries of science.”
—Brilliant Idea: More Than 80,000 Of Einstein’s Documents Going Online : The Two-Way : NPR
“It’s important, therefore, to understand how insights and aesthetics interact, and how these two goals could sustain insightful and visually appealing information visualization.”
—Chaomei Chen, “Top 10 Unsolved Information Visualization Problems” (2005)
“Much of the discussion surrounding signs in libraries has been around the attitude of the signs and the policies from which they stem. While this is very important, let’s not forget that they don’t often conform to the rules of graphic design either (i.e. they’re not pretty). Chances are that your library doesn’t have a graphic design department, so this isn’t a surprise. If you’d like to improve the looks of your signs but don’t know where to start, you could do worse than to thumb through the go-to The Non-Designer’s Design Book. It isn’t going to turn you into an expert sign designer over night, but it will introduce you to some basic principles that can improve the appeal of your signs.”
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Beautiful is Better Than Ugly | Walking Paper
This is a great read about signage in libraries. I vote for good design (always).
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“Consider pouring yourself a coffee or tea and taking a few minutes to walk around your library and look at the signs you see. Where do they fall on this graph?”
(Graph shows Ugly to Beautiful, horizontal, and Mean to Friendly, vertical)
“Perhaps replace friendly/mean with helpful/unhelpful too. How many of your signs fall into the desirable quadrant 1?”
” —Beautiful is Better Than Ugly | Walking Paper
I am enjoying the concept for more than signs…
(via newspaperthings)
Me too!
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