MyArcJournal: A coffee-table book

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

A coffee-table book

Information is Beautiful by David McCandless is an inspirational book for many people like myself. You could immensely rely on this visual guide to brainstorm and to get some ideas on how to process a brief/concept/manifesto/ or whatever..
I have posted below some of the graphics which I find simply expressive. I do agree, to some extent, that the inforgraphics within this book are sometimes greatly simplified obviously like The Middle East visual shown below. Have a look at it and get inspired!

Happy October!

SIMA

Quoting My Readings

"Symbols and symbolisms are much-discussed topics, but they are rarely discussed intelligently. It is too often forgotten that some if not all symbols had a material and concrete existence before coming to symbolise anything." The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre

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"'Language should be tortured to tell the truth.' It should be twisted, denaturalised, extended, condensed, cut, and reunited, made to work against itself. Language as the ' big Other' is not an agent of wisdom to whose message we should attune ourselves, but a place of cruel indifference and stupidity. The most elementary form of torturing one's language is called poetry." The Poetic Torture-House of Language, Slavoj Žižek

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