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Personal thoughts toward the film”Helvetica”:

At first when i first watch this film, i thought this is just a film talking about different type of fonts and how they were design, but i was wrong. This documentary film is actually about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.

In the film, it tells us how words influence each type of feeling and meaning to the readers. It also tell us the origins of the font “Helvetica”. This film include some interview of typographers’ opinion toward the font “Helvetica”. Some designers said Helvetica is clean, neutral, legible, and professional. Everyday, designers have to kept up and think ideas of designing typefaces and font in order to make attention to the buyers and let people buying the products.

The film aims to show Helvetica’s beauty and illuminate the personalities that are behind typefaces. It also explores the rift between modernists and postmodernists, with the latter expressing and explaining their criticisms of the famous typeface. In the film, the word and idea of modernism are repeated through much scenes.

My own opinions toward this film and font:

I must say that i don’t really like Helvetica font much, because nowaday it became an default font in every different type of computer. I don’t even know the existing of Helvetica until i watch this film, i thought this font is just type of other similar font to “Arial”. Personally i like every different type of fonts that i could find, but i just never pay attention to the existing of  font Helvetica. It’s just too commonly being used.

This film is documentary, which i personally recommand that a person who want to being typographer for future could watch this film. Although this film is not really well-known (for common people), but i recommand that everyone should watch it (not really recommend for kindergarden, i guess they don’t really know what the film is talking about).

Although this film was slow and long, i learn a lot from it. I finally know what’s “san serif” and “serif”. San-serif is typeface that doesn’t have serif(stroke) at the end of each letter. Serif is type face that have strok at the end of each letter. I learn where the font “Helvetica” originate from. The original name for this font was “Neue Haas Grotesk “  but the typeface’s name was changed by Haas’ German parent company Stempel in 1960 to Helvetica — derived from Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for Switzerland — in order to make it more marketable internationally.

While some typographers opposed it, because they feel that it doesn’t give the reader any feeling, and that Helvetica is overused, because nearly all the signs and labels in New York city is made out of the font Helvetica. You could also Helvetica used in many websites not just only label in U.S. Helvetica font can be found anywhere around the world.

Since Helvetica is world wise used, the quality and likeness of this font really depends on each people’s point of view.

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Not sure the graph was made by this guy or not, but this’s great graph to show how what type of music he listen to. more on this website:http://archgfx.net/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=161

He’s name is something.. Adam??? and i don’t know the word he’s using >< sorry this website suck.

maybe this is  too esay …. ><

maybe it’s too easy obiviously .

This is the blog about Travel Risk on Shark Bite, in the chart, you could see

how many cases of shark bite happen in the world.  It’s cool because you can know more how risky /not risky to shark threat. More datas (not really) is at the website: http://gobudgettravel.com/travel-safety/the-shark-attack-capital-of-the-world

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This blog is about risk of judge whether a particular risk is big or small is, well, a risky business. There’s a lot more to it than you might think. Flying in airplanes is a case in point. You’d think that you could just find out the numbers—the odds—and that would be it.

here’s the webiste:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/risky.html

Information Design class 2008/2/19:

Question: Find one graph/visualization you like and write a short paragraph blog post on why& how.

This graph i find in gapminder.org is about World Education in 2000, i like it because it’s very interesting. This graph tells about amounts of GDP per capita to average education (school life expectancy in years). From this graph, you could see huge difference between advanced countries and non advanced countries.

The red circles that are in the chart are Asian countries, from this you could see the some countries’ people take 12-13 years on their education(ex:China,Thailand,Indonesia,and Malaysia…etc). But Japan, also belong to Asia, take more years in education than other red countries. This shown that Japan have more GDP that support citizens to learn and have more years of education.

The dark blue circles that are in the chart are European countries. You could see most European countries get more money to support their citizen to have more years of education (except some countries like Turkey, Bulgaria,and Iran…etc which having 10-13 years of education.) Other advanced countries like England, France, Italy , and German, get more than 20,000 dollars to support on their citizens’ education.

The American(green) countries mostly have more years and money to support on education(except Latin America).

Africa having worst result than any other countries, their GDP don’t have enough money to support on their years of education, most people in Africa work every day and every time. From the result we could easily how GDP effect the education of people in each countries

ok, i want to embed some videos into my pacam blog, i went to the website and copy the embed code, then i went to the code and paste it. then it’s not working ! I search help, it say i need to go to users and click off annual option under the users profile. problem is….. i’m not a administrator!! i just don’t understand it.

Any suggestion or help ?

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