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Saturday, May 14, 2011

My Fave New Blog: Bad Pictograms I | dispositio

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Here's an excerpt & do read the full post by Holger Syme!

"Pictograms work on a principle of maximum reduction and minimal specificity: the figure depicted ought to represent as many individually distinct viewers as possible. It should address itself to everyone concerned.

That’s the idea, anyway – and that’s why the above are “good” pictograms. There are plenty of “bad” pictograms, or ones that are described as bad by people around the interwebs. Like these (above)..."

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