General Research & Lectures

29 September 2015
Authorship & Interaction

*Introduction
-How meaning is communicated?
-Can we pass meaning ?

*images communicate
-When adding text to an image it anchors it.

*Open Design/Code Design:
Open Design is the development of a work that one does through use of publicly shared design information in exchange for the developer who modifies the work to upload the modified version for others to take as well to do the same thing.
Code Design

*What is an author?
It is difficult to tell when the graphic designer is the author of the work for what does the graphic designer do ? He produces the work he creates something, but not always he gets credit for it. The definition of a writer is ‘An originator or creator, as of a theory or plan’.
The designer creates using his imagination but in occasions he is told by someone else to create something, so who would the credit go to, the idea came from the person who hired the designer in the first place.

*Co-Design
It may be a product, service, or organization development process which allows other users to make improvements to it, change it in a way to make it better and that way that give something back to the owner which is the person or company who owns the site or published the first work.

Inspector- Shows Code and shows you how everything works in that specific site.

*Having a look at the websites recommended by the tutor.
-thenounproject.com

Then i had a look at Processing as well so i could get a better idea on what i was going to be working on the next week.

*Theory
-Sets of ideas
-Articulate ideas and positions

*Structuralism
- Philosophy movement in Europe in the late 1800s-1960s
-Focuses on society as a system
-Differential relations are the key to understanding culture and society.
-Focuses on material practises as points for analysis.

*Ferdinand de Saussare (1857-1913) a Swiss linguist and semiotic whose ideas were the foundation of many developments in linguistics and semiology as well.
-Linguistics, The Structure of Language Semiotics
*Vladimir Propp (1895-1970), he was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simple narrative elements.
-31 Functions if Russian folk stories

*Through Investigation can we find of this kind of rational structure approach to communication.

*Joseph Muller-Brockman (1914-1996) Grid Systems in Graphic Design
*Herbert Bayer (1882-1945)
*’The mental eye focuses through type, not upon it’ Beatrice Warde
*‘Words divide, images unite’ Gerdz Antz (1900-1988)

Post Structuralism
-Position themselves within the system that is explored.
*Roland Barthes 1915-1980
-Semiotics
Signs are complex cultural chains of meaning.
*Katherine McCoy 1945
-Post structuralism is all about the resistance.
*Wolfgang Weingart 1945
-The only way to break typographic rules is to know them.
-Words would become graphic in expression.
‘My way to Typography’ 2000

14th of October 2015

*Defining the Digital Environment
*First mass prodecued document
-Guntenberg Bible
*Digital
-Fluid
-Malleable
-Accessible
-A conversation as apposed to a monologue.
*Structure & Meaning
*Authorship+Audience=Collaboration

*The Language of New Media’ Lev Manovich 1995
-can exist in different, potentially infinite versions.

Sensory Engagement & The Haptic

*Jessica Helfand
‘Demoralization of the screen Space 2001 (Graphic Design Theory)

*What we need is a considerations of special paradigms in an immaterial world.

-Designers learned to wear technology, not the other way around.

*Theo Watson
*Gesture and the Interface

Gestural systems are no different from any other form of interaction.
‘Natural user interfaces are not Natural’
*Relative Environments
Artworks have left the screen