Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Advances in the Past Decade
tag > Design
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"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" - Abraham Maslow
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Founder of Autodesk Inc. (https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/) and supporter of many interesting initiatives such as the RetroPsychoKinesis project (https://fourmilab.ch/rpkp/) Born in the US, he lived in Switzerland for decades.
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Nazi Design Legacy
It is telling that the currently leading design language in western tech is heavily inspired by a design tradition which evolved in Germany before, during & after the Nazi time. Dieter Rams' guiding philosophy "Das Chaos beseitigen" ("Clean up the chaos") has a dark history.
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The Corpus Chronophage - A clock that slows down, stops, and run backward (project page)
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Ideas are like viruses: They are often highly infections and give you a temporary fever that clouds the mind and leads to rash decisions that feel great now but are mostly bad later. Great ideas are very rare and tend to be even better once the initial fever has passed.
Ideas are like wine. They take years to mature and taste horrible in the meantime - but the wait is worth it.
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Arthur Koestler’s concept of a holon is something that is simultaneously a whole in and of itself, as well as a part of a larger whole. Holons can be understood as the constituent part–wholes of a hierarchy.
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Advertisements for a fashion-house sale - Werbeagentur E. Halpern, Zürich. Scanned from Basic Typography: Handbook of Technique and Design, ABC Edition, 1972
