TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drucker,Johanna
TI  - Graphesis: visual forms of knowledge production 
T2  - MetaLABprojects
SN  - 9780674724938
AV  - P93.5 .D78 2014
U1  - 302.23 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Graphic arts
KW  - Information visualization
KW  - Visual analytics
KW  - fast
KW  - Druckgraphik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Visualisierung
KW  - Buchherstellung
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 215); Image, interpretation, and interface -- Windows : Walter Crane's tree ; Gestalt diagrams ; Graphic variables ; Making connections ; Modelling vision ; Information visualizations ; Interface design ; The "book" of the future -- Interpreting visualization: visualizing interpretation -- Interface and interpretation -- Designing graphic interpretation
N2  - Graphesis provides a descriptive critical language for the analysis of graphical knowledge. In an interdisciplinary study fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content. Among the most significant of these formats is the graphical user interface (GUI), the dominant feature of the screens of nearly all consumer electronic devices. Because so much of our personal and professional lives is mediated through visual interfaces, it is important to start thinking critically about how they shape knowledge, our behavior, and even our identity. Drucker makes the case for studying visuality from a humanistic perspective, exploring how graphic languages can serve fields where qualitative judgments take priority over quantitative statements of fact. Graphesis offers a new epistemology of the ways we process information, embracing the full potential of visual forms and formats of knowledge production
ER  -