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#IAMondays: Symbols as Metaphors
So, Devon posted a rather interesting site with some interactive icons. While the overall design was very simple, the Simbly website has an interesting interface. The icons shown on the site can be...
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Mapped Images Provide Understanding
As Edward Tufte argues in Beautiful Evidence, mapped pictures combine “representational images with scales, diagrams, overlays, numbers, words, and images,” (p.13). Mapped pictures are very complex as...
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Embodied Connections: Meaning-Making in a Multimodal Discourse
This past week in our graduate course on Information Architecture with Professor Bill Wolff, we’ve explored techniques and design philosophies centered on information display. Our discussion was...
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Life Application of Lupton’s Ideas on Typography
For this week’s class we looked at Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking With Type (2010). This book describes design principles involving typography. Until reading Lupton’s book, I never put much thought into...
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An Infographic on the Importantance of Breakfast!
Reflection 1 I originally started out wanting to create an infographic on waffles, but I ran into a dilemma: what is there really to say about waffles? This is when I realized that there is so much...
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#iamondays How to Write E-Lit
On Twitter, Devon posted this: Which is a link that leads us to this: The “Fun da mentals” of e-lit. A very old image to teach us how to do something new. When I first saw this picture, I was...
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Linear or Non: Which is Better?
One of our readings last week was Afternoon: A Story, by Michael Joyce. While this was in some ways a very unusual and innovative story, I don’t know if I could say it had any advantages over a more...
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Jason’s Generative Poem
1. My generative poem was about the themes and emotions of my work-in-progress novel, “Manifestation.” The novel is very emotional and involves a lot of tragedy, pain, and death. My goal was to see how...
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Treaty of Greens: Generate this! (Reflections)
Treaty of Greens (generative poem) Reflection 1 As a person who isn’t that into traditional poetry, I was less than enthused with an assignment that was labeled as “generative poetry.” In traditional...
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Perspectives On Ergodic Literature Within The Field Of Writing
As I wrote in my prior reflection about the creation of Topaz Galaxies, generative poetry is a completely different form of composition and experience than that of traditional, print-based...
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