2009/03/18

In graphic design and sociology, an Isotype is a system of pictograms designed by the Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurath, an active member of the Vienna Circle, in collaboration with the illustrator Gerd Arntz to communicate information in a simple, non-verbal way. Isotype stands for International System of TYpographic Picture Education. Neurath originally intended Isotype to be used by educators of young children, but it wound up instead heavily influencing modern public signage, statistical graphics, and information graphics. Visually, it owes a lot to a clean-lines, 1920s realist/deco aesthetic. In 'a picture speaks a thousand words' kind of a way, Isotype was developed as a way of conveying quantitative information with social consequences — the availability of bread and sugar, the manpower involved in constructing automobiles, in different countries. Isotype may have some common ground in intentions with Buckminster Fuller's Geoscope....

2010/09/07

I’ve hired a bunch of people to do art for some of my largest games, I thought I would give a little insight on what do when hiring yourself.

2010/09/07

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License....

2010/09/07

De hoeveelheid content op het internet neemt continue toe. Er is steeds meer informatie beschikbaar en dit leidt voor velen tot een information overload. Geschikte informatie uit die enorme berg content filteren is een hele opgave; filter failure is inmiddels een begrip. Maar er is een oplossing! Persoonlijke dashboards filteren voor jou informatie, zodat je altijd op de hoogte bent van onderwerpen die jij interessant vindt....