If I were to make the world a better place, I would start by helping the least privileged individuals to be recognized, respected, and included by people more privileged than them. For example, the disabled, people who are transgender, who are of color, etc. By helping the normalization and acceptance of these groups of people,…
Importance of Understanding Moveable Type and Renaissance in Interaction Design
The understanding of the moveable type and the Renaissance is important in Interaction Design. The moveable type is important because it was able to reproduce written communications for the distribution of the masses; it was one of the first moments where they put importance to hierarchy and typography layout; made typeface more humanistic with the…
Representation in the History of Graphic Design
In the journal, ‘Graphic Design History: Past, Present, and Future’ by Teal Triggs, Triggs talks about how the history of graphic design did not originate from what we might consider aspects of design. Careers we might associate as contributors graphic design are “‘printing, typography, photography, and advertising.’” Credit to the origins could include “‘anthropology, aesthetics,…
Twitter’s Iconography in Relation to Ancient Egypt
“[T]his invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of learners, with the neglect of their memory, because their trust in writing comes from strange external marks and not their own internal recall.,” King Thamos to the Egyptian God, Thoth. King Thamos was afraid that writing would replace memory since we have to rely on writings…