Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/about.cfm

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