3-1-12 (15th Class)

Watched the Maeda TED Talk in class, it was fairly interesting.  Learned that Wurman started TED talk, and I think I’ll visit the website sometime in the future for some of the interesting lectures.  I also learned a very important fact that the average human’s attention span is only 19 minutes.

The speaker himself talked about simplicity vs. complexity.  He seemed to be tired of simplicity and touted the perks of complexity (ie, sunset with clouds).  It seemed to me that Maeda just wanted graphic communication to return to the complexity of the 50’s.  Personally I think that simplicity and complexity work great together so long as you have a powerful contrast between the two.

I also thought it was interesting how designing phonebooks was good way for fresh students to enter the field of Graphic Design.

After that it was 10:00am, and it time to join the WALKOUT!

Saturated – 1. Unable to hold or contain more; full. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) (of a colour) having a large degree of saturation

Desaturated - formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white

Sopping - Saturated with liquid; wet through