Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chart Designer Nigel Holmes first surveyed the distinctive shapes of America through the window of a Greyhound bus. Having completed his M.A. in illustration at London's Royal College of Art in 1966, British-born Holmes was embarked on a 99-days-for-$99 visual tour of the U.S., during which he filled his sketch pads and memory with images of cars, drive-in movie theaters, billboard displays and fast-food emporiums. "I was tremendously influenced by what I saw and by new techniques used in American graphics," he says. "I decided, however, that I could never work here...
...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
...news spigots have been turned off in Afghanistan too, or at least diminished to a drip. As the Soviet Union takes hold and expels Western correspondents and cameramen, expect to see fewer of those distant grainy films of Soviet transports landing, and Soviet tanks lumbering up the road, giving visual confirmation to the anchorman's words. Chancellor feels "frustrated as hell...
...Donnell studied them while on a fellowship to Kyoto in the mid-'70s. The desire to activate every part of the surface with emphatic silhouetted forms, stopping just short of congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured geometrical forms, the loops and slices and incomplete circles of color, moving with splendid élan. A work like Palaestra, 1979, shows his peculiar talent for keeping up a lively debate between edge and surface in the reactions between the rhythmical curves...
Using an approach similar to one pioneered in Cuba, teachers will present a visual image chosen to represent themes such as health, housing, production, and revolution, and then develop a dialogue with the learners...