Contemporary Trends

Oneword

An interactive system designed to sample and display an audience's collective voice, moods and feelings during a large-scale event. People send an SMS message to a special number, which is then displayed on a tree-like generative graphic software. As soon as a new message arrives a new branch blossoms. As the event unfolds layers of texts gradually build up in a foliage of collective memory.

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Something to remember

Letters are things not pictures of things.

Eric Gill

On Visual Language and Alphabetic Language

"Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms.

They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans."

Matt Woolman
Digital Information Graphics
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