Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved into a ramshackle old Victorian house in Walnut Creek near San Francisco and concentrated on turning it into a warm, imaginatively decorated home for themselves and Mark. Formerly night copy editor of the Oakland Tribune, Painter switched to freelance writing and became a $167-a-week designer of visual aids at the 2,000-boy Job Corps center in nearby Pleasanton. To Center Director Steve Uslan, Painter is "uniquely suited" to his job. "His ability to draw kids out of their shells is quite remarkable." The happy father thought it was time to bring his son home. By then...
Even if courses like Hum 105 or the Visual Studies courses offered at the Carpenter Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...
Approval of Hum 105, the Visual Studies program, and the English Department's writing courses are all symptoms of a rather beneficial disease the Faculty is succumbing to--creeping tolerance. Academic appreciation for the procedures as well as the products of art will continue as long as the Faculty realizes that while mechanics occasionally drip grease on the liberal arts limousine, they also make...
Inside the basement's cardboard coffins lies an incredible variety of artistic curios. Ranging from flamboyant pictorial designs to quiet calligraphy, most jackets in the Harvard and Kleist collections are from books of fiction, where jackets are commercially crucial. The jacket-designer's task is to capture in one visual moment the character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through...
Fisher pointed out that computer-made maps could be extremely useful in nearly every field where visual display of data is possible. He said that researchers often compile mountains of data but limitations of time and money generally prevent them from converting the data into maps. It is practically impossible to comprehend spatially distributed data when it is presented in tables, he added...