History of media and communication is also the history of culture(s). Some technologies define not only the way of life, they also change the way we see ourselves and like/want to see ourselves.
Global connectivity has not only increased communication, it has also changed the way we communicate - affecting and altering our perceptions of the world. Culture as something belonging to a particular 'place' is contaminated (albeit, in a positive sense too) and is emerging more as a flattened topography cluttered with visual, textual and non-verbal messages that we witness as a language of the new millennium.
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
Constructed Thoughts: Built | Unbuilt
January 31, 2009
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Mapping History with an interactive interface: End of Print? Interactive History and great data-graphics for those graphically and visually inclined...
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Viren Brahmbhatt | de.Sign
The Super Ad Bowl - Two Decades of Players - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
January 26, 2009
January 22, 2009
January 20, 2009
January 6, 2009
Ethereal.....
Postcards From Mars
NASA
RIPPLES A crater between the southern highlands and northern lowlands, intersected by what may have been a shoreline of an ocean.
NASA
RIPPLES A crater between the southern highlands and northern lowlands, intersected by what may have been a shoreline of an ocean.
January 2, 2009
Celebrate 200 Years of Braille...
Braille: A Language of touch, that touches millions of lives and us....
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why Braille is brilliant
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why Braille is brilliant
January 1, 2009
December 26, 2008
December 25, 2008
Words as Signs
Historically, words have been in use to effectively communicate, seduce and be persuasive. In today’s technologically advanced and visually obsessed world, they have taken over our lives and have become bits and bytes that pixelate our imagination. Reading is constantly confronted by seeing and scrolling... while words float over and across the screen enticing to draw our attention or distract us from reality as they bend every form of what is real. But still, however treacherous they may/can be, as designers, we will always use them to seduce, persuade or dissuade; but more than anything else, never lose sight of the fact that they are 'visual' and graphic and can be used not only to tell stories but to also paint them....
Some Buzzwords published in NY Times with illustrations by Jessica Hische are worth checking:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/weekinreview/buzzwords2008.html
Some Buzzwords published in NY Times with illustrations by Jessica Hische are worth checking:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/weekinreview/buzzwords2008.html
December 23, 2008
December 19, 2008
December 18, 2008
Places Journal: A Forum of Design for the Public Realm
Pratt's Graduate School of Architecture and Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (Professors Meta Brunzema and Viren Brahmbhatt) have introduced an innovative course on sustainable neighborhood planning in Bedford Stuyvesant, which will also inform further planning and implementation by the Pratt Center for Community Development and others.
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