From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0002.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/271a2bb8/attachment.htm From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0003.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0001.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/271a2bb8/attachment-0001.htm From waarde at glo.be Tue Nov 17 13:03:57 2009 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:57 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Sign09: Signage and Wayshowing in Vienna - Programme now online. Message-ID: Dear all, If you are?in signage and wayfinding, you probably can?t afford to miss this conference. Programme now online http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=2 For further information and registration please go to: http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=6 Organization: Lucie Jagu & Martin Foessleitner for IIID. Some statements: Helmut Ness / DE: Sign09 is the first public event, which shows?the status of signage and wayfinding solutions worldwide?and from all perspectives of this topic. It is a great signal for the public importance of wayfinding and?it is a very good mixture of workshops for exchange experiences?and showing experiences by cases. Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment.htm From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0004.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0002.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/271a2bb8/attachment-0002.htm From waarde at glo.be Tue Nov 17 13:03:57 2009 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:57 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Sign09: Signage and Wayshowing in Vienna - Programme now online. Message-ID: Dear all, If you are?in signage and wayfinding, you probably can?t afford to miss this conference. Programme now online http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=2 For further information and registration please go to: http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=6 Organization: Lucie Jagu & Martin Foessleitner for IIID. Some statements: Helmut Ness / DE: Sign09 is the first public event, which shows?the status of signage and wayfinding solutions worldwide?and from all perspectives of this topic. It is a great signal for the public importance of wayfinding and?it is a very good mixture of workshops for exchange experiences?and showing experiences by cases. Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0001.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0005.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0004.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/271a2bb8/attachment-0004.htm From waarde at glo.be Tue Nov 17 13:03:57 2009 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:57 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Sign09: Signage and Wayshowing in Vienna - Programme now online. Message-ID: Dear all, If you are?in signage and wayfinding, you probably can?t afford to miss this conference. Programme now online http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=2 For further information and registration please go to: http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=6 Organization: Lucie Jagu & Martin Foessleitner for IIID. Some statements: Helmut Ness / DE: Sign09 is the first public event, which shows?the status of signage and wayfinding solutions worldwide?and from all perspectives of this topic. It is a great signal for the public importance of wayfinding and?it is a very good mixture of workshops for exchange experiences?and showing experiences by cases. Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0003.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0006.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0005.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/271a2bb8/attachment-0005.htm From waarde at glo.be Tue Nov 17 13:03:57 2009 From: waarde at glo.be (Karel van der Waarde) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:03:57 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Sign09: Signage and Wayshowing in Vienna - Programme now online. Message-ID: Dear all, If you are?in signage and wayfinding, you probably can?t afford to miss this conference. Programme now online http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=2 For further information and registration please go to: http://www.sign09.net/index.php?pg=6 Organization: Lucie Jagu & Martin Foessleitner for IIID. Some statements: Helmut Ness / DE: Sign09 is the first public event, which shows?the status of signage and wayfinding solutions worldwide?and from all perspectives of this topic. It is a great signal for the public importance of wayfinding and?it is a very good mixture of workshops for exchange experiences?and showing experiences by cases. Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0004.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. 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Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0007.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0006.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0005.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0002.htm From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0008.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0007.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0006.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. 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Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0009.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0008.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0007.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0004.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0010.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0009.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0008.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0005.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0011.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0010.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0009.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0006.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0011.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0010.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? 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In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0007.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0012.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0011.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0008.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk Fri Nov 27 12:52:21 2009 From: mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk (Mark Stanton) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, position etc. Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or maybe even unsuccessful solutions? Many thanks for your help Mark Stanton and/or/if mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk + 44 (0)778 738 7885 www.andorif.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/d4d94b6b/attachment.htm From info at userdesign.co.uk Fri Nov 27 17:22:24 2009 From: info at userdesign.co.uk (info at userdesign.co.uk) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Dear Mark There is a section called 'Books on law' in: Butcher's Copy-editing, Cambridge University Press, 2009, by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach. It might be of some help? Kind regards Thomas User design Graphic communication design, illustration and production service 31 Dover Street Leicester Leicestershire LE1 6PW, UK T 00 44 (0)7790924159 W http://www.userdesign.co.uk E info at userdesign.co.uk > InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms > From: Mark Stanton Add > To: infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment > of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, > position etc. > > > Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or > maybe even unsuccessful solutions? > > > Many thanks for your help > Mark Stanton > and/or/if > > > mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk > + 44 (0)778 738 7885 > www.andorif.co.uk From david.farbey at googlemail.com Fri Nov 27 22:52:27 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:27 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Is it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map?" 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Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0014.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0013.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0012.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0009.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk Fri Nov 27 12:52:21 2009 From: mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk (Mark Stanton) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, position etc. Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or maybe even unsuccessful solutions? Many thanks for your help Mark Stanton and/or/if mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk + 44 (0)778 738 7885 www.andorif.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/d4d94b6b/attachment-0001.htm From info at userdesign.co.uk Fri Nov 27 17:22:24 2009 From: info at userdesign.co.uk (info at userdesign.co.uk) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Dear Mark There is a section called 'Books on law' in: Butcher's Copy-editing, Cambridge University Press, 2009, by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach. It might be of some help? Kind regards Thomas User design Graphic communication design, illustration and production service 31 Dover Street Leicester Leicestershire LE1 6PW, UK T 00 44 (0)7790924159 W http://www.userdesign.co.uk E info at userdesign.co.uk > InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms > From: Mark Stanton Add > To: infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment > of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, > position etc. > > > Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or > maybe even unsuccessful solutions? > > > Many thanks for your help > Mark Stanton > and/or/if > > > mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk > + 44 (0)778 738 7885 > www.andorif.co.uk From david.farbey at googlemail.com Fri Nov 27 22:52:27 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:27 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Is it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map?" In-Reply-To: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> References: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B104A1B.90906@googlemail.com> From "The Guardian", 26 Nov 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/26/london-tube-map-design -- David Farbey david at farbey.co.uk http://www.farbey.co.uk http://twitter.com/dfarb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/9bcb6d36/attachment-0001.htm From digitas at panix.com Tue Nov 10 19:05:09 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:09 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: Uses zooming in flash: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY -- Randal From matt at studiolift.com Wed Nov 11 15:44:41 2009 From: matt at studiolift.com (Matt Carey) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:41 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: microsyntax and twitter Message-ID: <91345738-7A8E-4726-B844-7CDDCA9F7BBF@studiolift.com> cafe readers might be interested in a discussion that has started involving twitter and microsyntax http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-microsyntax-for-twitter-three-pointers-and-the-slasher/ an interesting discussion about how to save a single character due to the restriction on character limits, but also how to short-hand notification information. Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0015.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0014.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0013.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? 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Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0010.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk Fri Nov 27 12:52:21 2009 From: mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk (Mark Stanton) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, position etc. Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or maybe even unsuccessful solutions? Many thanks for your help Mark Stanton and/or/if mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk + 44 (0)778 738 7885 www.andorif.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/d4d94b6b/attachment-0002.htm From info at userdesign.co.uk Fri Nov 27 17:22:24 2009 From: info at userdesign.co.uk (info at userdesign.co.uk) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Dear Mark There is a section called 'Books on law' in: Butcher's Copy-editing, Cambridge University Press, 2009, by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach. It might be of some help? Kind regards Thomas User design Graphic communication design, illustration and production service 31 Dover Street Leicester Leicestershire LE1 6PW, UK T 00 44 (0)7790924159 W http://www.userdesign.co.uk E info at userdesign.co.uk > InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms > From: Mark Stanton Add > To: infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment > of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, > position etc. > > > Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or > maybe even unsuccessful solutions? > > > Many thanks for your help > Mark Stanton > and/or/if > > > mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk > + 44 (0)778 738 7885 > www.andorif.co.uk From david.farbey at googlemail.com Fri Nov 27 22:52:27 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:27 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Is it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map?" 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Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0016.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0015.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0014.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten > movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in > the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar > system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you > even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 > (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic > structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system > and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the > universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this > movie was made in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to > be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit > of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 20:54:42 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:42 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> Message-ID: <93296886-E69F-4CE8-B135-2C5789230606@panix.com> "Plank scale" is of course meant to read "Planck scale". -- Randal On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Randal wrote: > One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie > has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes > of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at > 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the > next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times > larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except > loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. > > When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten > before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten > between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe > ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe > has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made > in the 1960's). > > Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer > electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till > the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven > or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be > close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of > space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. > > -- Randal > > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > >> Randal, >> >>> Uses zooming in flash: >>> >>> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >>> >>> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY >> >> Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the >> difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). >> >> Deborah >> _____ >> >> Deborah Taylor-Pearce >> dtp at she-philosopher.com >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: >> infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: >> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe >> >> For all Information Design matters: >> http://InformationDesign.org >> >> Problems? Write to: >> InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org >> ___________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk Fri Nov 20 18:26:02 2009 From: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk (Stephen Boyd Davis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: ADRI Design Lecture - Adapting Technology, Changing Lives - London 9 December 2009 Message-ID: Design Lecture: ?Robin Christopherson on Adapting Technology, Changing Lives When: ?4:45pm, Wednesday 9 December 2009 Where: ?Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK A Design Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University. Despite being blind, Robin Christopherson uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility. In his talk Robin will discuss and demonstrate several assistive technologies and show why it is important to consider accessibility when designing interactive products. He will show examples of using certain websites such as youtube. He will share his personal point of view on dealing with everyday activities such as watching TV, videos and going to an exhibition. About the speaker Robin Christopherson is a founding member of AbilityNet, a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book. -- _____________________________________________________________ Stephen Boyd Davis Reader in Interactive Media Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 ............................................................. 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Recent advances in technology have enabled the use of diagrams, sketches and other visualizations to become an integral part of our lives. For effective communication with these novel and sophisticated visual representations, we need insight into how diagrams are used, how they are represented, which types are available and when it is appropriate to use them. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations for communication, cognition, creative thought, computation and problem-solving. The study of diagrammatic notations and their use must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. Diagrams 2010 is the sixth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh in 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields mentioned, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams 2010 will be co-located with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci-2010). This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Diagrams 2010 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters, and also tutorial and workshop sessions. For the first time in history of Diagrams we will organize workshops and postgraduate student sessions. We invite submissions of: - long research papers (15 pages) - short research papers (7 pages) - posters (3 pages) - tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details) - graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarize software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, http://www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/submission Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - applications of diagrams - computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams - design of diagrammatic notations - diagram understanding by humans or machines - diagram aesthetics and layout - educational uses of diagrams - evaluation of diagrammatic notations - graphical communication - heterogeneous notations involving diagrams - history of diagrammatic notations - information visualization using diagrams - novel uses of diagrams - psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams - reasoning with diagrams - software to support the use of diagrams - theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization - usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams - use of diagrams in disciplines of humanities, engineering, mathematics, science and technology. Important dates *************** Abstract submission: 8 January 2010 Paper, tutorial and workshop proposal submissions: 18 January 2010 Poster submission: 1 February 2010 Notification for workshops: 8 February 2010 Notification for papers and tutorials: 1 March 2010 Notification for posters: 8 March 2010 Camera ready copies due: 29 March 2010 Graduate symposium submissions: 5 April 2010 Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2010 Diagrams 2010 conference: 9-11 August 2010 Organizers ********** Conference Chairs: Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) Workshop Chair: Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Tutorial Chair: Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Graduate Symposium Chair: Jim Davies (Carleton University, Canada) Program Committee ***************** Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Christine Alvarado (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) John Gero (George Mason University, USA) Mark D. Gross (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) John Howse (University of Brighton, UK) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) John Lee (University of Edinburgh, UK) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) Mark Minas (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Germany) Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autunoma de Mexico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) Contact Us ********** diagrams2010 at diagrams-conference.org **************************************************************** Call For Workshop Proposals At Diagrams 2010 We solicit proposals for half-day workshops to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. Interested researchers should submit a one or two page proposal that includes a title, the focus areas and goals of the proposed workshop, the target community (or communities), the number of expected talks, the planned format and the program committee. For more information see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/workshops **************************************************************** Call for Tutorial Proposals at Diagrams 2010 We call for proposals for two or four hour tutorials to be offered as part of Diagrams 2010. Proposals should include a title, names and affiliations of instructors, preferred duration, benefits to be gained from attending the tutorial, features of the tutorial content, description of the intended audience, presentation formats, tutorial history, and any additional equipment or support requirements. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/tutorials **************************************************************** Call for Graduate Symposium Submissions at Diagrams 2010 We solicit submission for Graduate Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2010. The goal of the Graduate Symposium is to provide senior graduate students or recent master's and Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to present their work and get feedback from established people. A group of experts will be present to comment on the presentations. Talks will also be given on 1) how to present scientific papers and 2) dissertation advice. Submissions should be up to three pages long. Accepted papers will be printed and made available at Diagrams 2010 and also on the conference web page. For more details, please see: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/content/graduate-symposium ============================================================= Mateja Jamnik Computer Laboratory Email: Mateja.Jamnik at cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mj201 J.J. Thomson Avenue Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 587 Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK Fax: +44 (0)1223 334 678 ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091120/2bae35a3/attachment-0011.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 06:54:44 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:54:44 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> Message-ID: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Does anyone on this list know anything about the Antwerp printers, C. van Ruremond (*d.* after 1531), alias Christophorum Endouiensem, and his widow? Ruremond's widow printed several religious titles for the English book market in the 16th century (spec., for the years 1530, 1532, 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1541, 1542, 1543, and 1544), sometimes giving a false place of publication on the colophon (e.g., "Zijrik," "Auryk," "Lipse," "Grunning," "Wesill in Cliefe lande"), as well as using multiple names ... which is where I start to get really confused! I'd like to confirm that "Jan Troost" and "Ubryght Hoff" and "me Catharyn wydowe" and "me wyddowe of Christoffel of Endhoue[n]" and "the widow of C. Ruremond" are indeed one and the same person. Can anyone help with this? Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 07:05:53 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:53 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0A2641.8010702@she-philosopher.com> Oops. I was wrong about the list of dates in the post I just sent: the widow's imprint is NOT on any publications until 1532. (Her husband's imprint is on all titles published in 1530 and 1531, as far as I know.) Sorry about that, Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 23 22:05:29 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:29 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Research query re. C16 women printers in Antwerp In-Reply-To: <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> <559599D6-0E5A-467C-A65F-C5DE11EB1E4C@panix.com> <4B0A23A4.1000901@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <4B0AF919.9070101@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, A colleague on the MapHist list (where I also posted my questions) passed me some interesting research on this: > Also from _A century of the > English book trade: short > notices of all printers_ > (accessible via Google Books): > > TROOST (JAN), pseudonym, occurs as the printer of an edition > of The defence of the marriage of preistes by James Sawtry, > printed at Auryk by Jan Troost in 1541. [Herbert, III, p. > 1833.] The type however is that of J. Oswen of Ipswich, so > that the book was very probably printed by him. Joel goes on to note that most library catalogues attribute Sawtry's _The Defence of the Mariage of Preistes ..._ (the colophon of which reads "Prynted at Auryk by Jan Troost. / M.D.XLI. in August") to the widow Ruremond-qua-Troost, despite the (perhaps little known) typographic evidence to the contrary. I know absolutely nothing about the (blackletter) type of J. Oswen of Ipswich, but can post samples from the 1541 publication if any of you are interested and want to examine it. Just let me know. For those of you interested in such arcana, E. Gordon Duff's book, which Joel pointed me to, is available in full, online, via Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+century+of+the+English+book+trade#v=onepage&q=&f=false Duff (1863-1924) is still one of the foremost authorities on the C15-C16 English book trade, so even if some of his research has been superseded by now, this title is still a good starting point. Fortunately, I don't have to resolve the proliferating questions around the widow Ruremond's multiple identities in order to finish overhauling my gallery exhibit on women booksellers (strictly speaking, C16 Antwerp printers are outside my area of specialty), but the questions will nag at me anyway, and eventually I'll run them down. I was just hoping that someone in my online networks might already know the answer. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk Fri Nov 27 12:52:21 2009 From: mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk (Mark Stanton) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, position etc. Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or maybe even unsuccessful solutions? Many thanks for your help Mark Stanton and/or/if mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk + 44 (0)778 738 7885 www.andorif.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/d4d94b6b/attachment-0003.htm From info at userdesign.co.uk Fri Nov 27 17:22:24 2009 From: info at userdesign.co.uk (info at userdesign.co.uk) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms Message-ID: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Dear Mark There is a section called 'Books on law' in: Butcher's Copy-editing, Cambridge University Press, 2009, by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach. It might be of some help? Kind regards Thomas User design Graphic communication design, illustration and production service 31 Dover Street Leicester Leicestershire LE1 6PW, UK T 00 44 (0)7790924159 W http://www.userdesign.co.uk E info at userdesign.co.uk > InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms > From: Mark Stanton Add > To: infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I am currently looking into best and current practice for the treatment > of defined terms in legal texts - typography, content, structure, > position etc. > > > Have you seen or tried any particularly successful, unusual, weird, or > maybe even unsuccessful solutions? > > > Many thanks for your help > Mark Stanton > and/or/if > > > mark.stanton at andorif.co.uk > + 44 (0)778 738 7885 > www.andorif.co.uk From david.farbey at googlemail.com Fri Nov 27 22:52:27 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:27 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Is it the end of the line for London's iconic tube map?" In-Reply-To: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> References: <20091127162224.5kwz0ixi4gs0c4g4@webmail.userdesign.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B104A1B.90906@googlemail.com> From "The Guardian", 26 Nov 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/26/london-tube-map-design -- David Farbey david at farbey.co.uk http://www.farbey.co.uk http://twitter.com/dfarb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091127/9bcb6d36/attachment-0003.htm From andrew at boag.co.uk Mon Nov 30 19:03:08 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:03:08 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Ways of treating defined terms In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I?m not sure that this response is quite what you are looking for, but hey. We had an interesting situation recently when developing new Lasting Power of Attorney forms for the Office of the Public Guardian. The document starts out as a form ? with questions and response boxes that people fill in - but, once completed and registered with the OPG, become a legal instrument - that has to function within the legal framework of the Mental Capacity Act. So the writing and design of these ?forms? became an interesting juggling act between legal conformance to the Act, and our efforts to use effective language. The forms are now downloadable from the OPG web site, along with our new guidance documents, but here are some issues that may be of interest to you: * The Act, and previous versions of the forms, refer to the person making an LPA as the ?Donor?. We managed to get the lawyers to agree to the alternative more descriptive ?person who is making the LPA?. * The term ?Attorney? itself many people confuse with the American usage ? pretty fundamental! * Appointing multiple attorneys means that the donor must indicate if they want them to act jointly, jointly and severally, or jointly for some decisions and J&S for others. The previous forms tried to tackle this difficult concept by referring to these options as ?together?, ?together and independently?, and ?together in respect of some matters and together and independently in respect of others?. The formal legal ?J, J&S, and J+J&S? won out in our final versions as being considered, to some extent at least, understood outside the legal community * Having tried to remove as much legal jargon as possible, it was felt that at the point of signature the form needed to say ?Signed by the person giving this lasting power of attorney and delivered as a deed? in order that its legal status be secure. In the accompanying guidance document we have a ?completion tip? saying ?This phrase is a legal phrase that gives legal formality to your LPA.?! I?d be interested in hearing any views on the improved LPA forms. Inevitably with complex stakeholder issues in a project of this kind the results are something of a compromise. But any members who have been aware of the project may be interested to know that early indications are that our new forms, since being launched in September, appear to have reduced submission errors quite significantly. (I have statistics which I can discuss offline but better not broadcast at this point.) Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Matt ------------------------------------------------ Lift: creative communication design phone: +44 (0)118 948 4862 **New number** mobile: +44 (0)7979 757983 aim: studiolift web: http://www.studiolift.com *This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only From esther at esthertabor.nl Sun Nov 15 22:18:11 2009 From: esther at esthertabor.nl (Esther Tabor) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:18:11 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: graduated student unleased Message-ID: Hello, I am not sure if the infodesign-Cafe is allowing job requests, but I am very much interested in a temporary position abroad (6 -24 months) within the field of information design (of course). I?ve recently graduated as a graphic designer at the Academy of Art St.Joost, Breda (NL). My graduation project was about a new system of nutritional information on packaging. In 2002 I graduated as a urban planner at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Msc). The last 3 years I have already worked as a graphic designer for the City of Tilburg, but I would like to develop and invest my knowledge of information design further. on www.esthertabor.nl is more information about me and the range of projects I have worked on so far. If you want more information, just sent me an email and I will sent back my CV. You are all very welcome to contact me if you know or have a position vacant. Kind regards, Esther Tabor esther at esthertabor.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091115/c0ce1100/attachment-0017.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:41 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:41 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: [Fwd: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph] Message-ID: <4B00A12D.8030102@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, I thought some of you might be interested in this, since there is a connection here to what we might call early-modern information design, and Lester's scholarly product is more "user-friendly" than what some of us are known for.... ;-) I expect Lester's book is not going to be the final word on the naming of "America" and Waldseem?ller?s map of 1507. Scholarly debates over the earliest European (and now, Chinese) travels to and explorations of the Americas are of long standing, with scholarly passions running very hot at times! But the topic appears to be of enduring interest, and Lester's book promises to be an interesting read. Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Review of Lester Book on Waldseemuller in Telegraph Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:19:52 -0500 From: Bert Johnson To: MapHist This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6551122/The-Fourth-Part-of-the-World-by-Toby-Lester-review.html Review is written by Noel Malcolm, himself a prolific author on Hobbes and the Balkans (a rare combination, surely): "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters." Bert Johnson -------- end of Original Message -------- From dtp at she-philosopher.com Mon Nov 16 01:47:52 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:52 -0800 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Message-ID: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Randal, > Uses zooming in flash: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ > > Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:46:38 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:38 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - London 8th December 2009 Message-ID: ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? Concerned your print, web and electronic > outputs aren't as easy to understand as you hoped? In a climate where > every sector is battling to communicate with a diverse population, it is > crucial that the information you produce meets the needs of each > individual. > > 'Designing for all' is a practical seminar helping you assess specific > audience needs, and see how different formats work. It will be of value > to anyone involved in the design and delivery of print, electronic and > web information. Trainer: Katie Grant, former publications manager, > Disability Rights Commission. Places are ?395 plus VAT. See: > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091116/41bd6757/attachment-0016.htm From katie at raincharm.co.uk Mon Nov 16 13:47:45 2009 From: katie at raincharm.co.uk (katie grant) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:47:45 -0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: designing for all course - 8th December 2009, London Message-ID: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> ++Designing for all: > An inclusive approach to web, print and electronic publishing > - A practical, one-day training course and document clinic > - Tuesday 8 December, Central London > http://www.headstar-events.com/dfa/ > > Want to reach new audiences? 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Barry Gray / UK: Sign 09 provides a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in helping people find?their way around often complex environments to hear from and discuss?the issues with?many of the top world practitioners in wayfinding, graphic design and associated areas. Covering such a wide range of subject?matter (something for just about everyone) and coupled with the exhibition of?examples of some of the best projects in the field,?Sign?09?is a unique?chance to develop skills and share experiences in?the setting of one of the world's great cities. Khanna Raman / India: Sign09 is exciting as it brings together people from across the globe to meet, share?and find better alternatives & direction to their wayfinding practices and hence sustain their enthusiasm and passion for it. Marta?Wieckowska / PL: Sign09 is a great opportunity for sharing experience and knowledge with people aroud the world.?Designers architects and manufacturers can exchange their point of view about such important in nowadays issues connected with public spaces.?Confrontation is very important element of development and sign09 provides the best way of confrontation - face to face. Siobonne Brewster / UK: Sign09 will be an innovating view of sign and?wayfinding systems that will allow us to understand and explore more about how signage and wayfinding systems can be utilised to improve accessibility for people with disabilities that will increase social inclusion and independence. Kind regards, Karel. waarde at glo.be From andrew at boag.co.uk Tue Nov 17 17:52:18 2009 From: andrew at boag.co.uk (andrew boag) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:18 +0000 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Customer helpline location In-Reply-To: <49601432A53545158C7D4BF8E4C36EF2@KatiePC> Message-ID: We regularly advise customers to have a clear helpline/single channel contact details, and to put this prominently on the front of a document, usually on the right and at the top. Our customer research consistently seems to support this ? but we don?t have any statistical data on cause and effect of this as a single variable. Just wondered if anyone knows of any such research along these lines? Andrew Boag ------------------------- Boag Associates T +44 (0)20 3008 6491 F +44 (0)20 3008 8601 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and intended for the addressee only. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20091117/f56eda48/attachment-0015.htm From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:01:03 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> References: <01c901ca57b8$493353e0$db99fba0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> <4B00A138.4050601@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> One of the most interesting things to me about the Powers of Ten movie has always been how clearly it shows the vast differences in the sizes of structures in the universe. When you "leave" the solar system at 10^13 here you go through five powers of ten before you even see the next, neighboring star, and our galaxy is 10^21 (100,000,000 times larger than the solar system). There are no basic structures except loose star clusters in between the solar system and the galaxy. When you leave the galaxy here, you go through two powers of ten before you even see any other galaxies, and it is five powers of ten between the size of a galaxy and the size of the visible universe ( ~10^26 meters), though this scale is not shown here (as the universe has effectively aged about 10 billion years since this movie was made in the 1960's). Similarly, on the other end of scale, when you "enter" the outer electron shell of the atom at 10^-9 it takes five powers of ten till the nucleus fills the screen at 10^-14. It is not, of course, proven or visualizable, but string theory postulates that strings have to be close in size to the Plank scale (or the smallest possible unit of space) which is 1.6 x 10^-35 meters. -- Randal On Nov 15, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote: > Randal, > >> Uses zooming in flash: >> >> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ >> >> Reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY > > Thanks for passing these on (feeds my ongoing obsession with the > difficulties of representing changes of scale in human terms ;-). > > Deborah > _____ > > Deborah Taylor-Pearce > dtp at she-philosopher.com > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: > infodesign-cafe at list.informationdesign.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: > http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe > > For all Information Design matters: > http://InformationDesign.org > > Problems? Write to: > InfoDesign-Cafe-Admin at list.InformationDesign.org > ___________________________________________________________________ From digitas at panix.com Wed Nov 18 19:10:39 2009 From: digitas at panix.com (Randal) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:39 -0500 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Interesting visualization of the scale of cells In-Reply-To: <932D5E78-0A2C-469F-B6CA-018050111386@panix.com> References: