A pattern language

illustration of Christopher Alexander's 'Positive Outdoor Space' by Matt Noiseux One of the books I use in my Landscape Design...

“The fact is that very few things have so much effect on the feeling inside a room as the sun shining into it.” (Pattern 128: Indoor Sunlight) Christopher

The syntax of a new language; networkism

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A Journal From Tomorrow: Asemic Braille from Keigo Depic Hara‎ The mechanical layout of the marks on this piece is a quality I've recently been trying to accomplish. I want to create drawings that appear to follow a computer's lines of logic without actually being any real language or logic.

This weblog explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture

Artist Jenny Holzer discusses her works For 7 World Trade, Redaction Paintings, and Truisms, as well as her love of clichés and comic relief.

Sketchplanations on Instagram: "Braille is a tactile writing and reading system for the blind and visually impaired. It was invented by Louis Braille when just 15 in 1824. Respect! I don't know about you, but when I've tried braille on signs occasionally, it's always seemed difficult to train my fingers to differentiate the shapes and the dots. Perhaps it would have helped if I'd known how it worked. Braille is based on a pattern of 6 dots, like a 6 on dice, with different letters, numerals…

If you received an education from the American public school system, you will remember the tedious study of Beowulf during high school, but may not have

Over the past several years, our quest to extract meaning from information has taken us more and more toward the realm of visual storytelling