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He stood in the street. There was nothing to do. He hadn’t realized this could happen to him. The moment was empty of urgency and purpose. He hadn’t planned on this. Where was the life he’d always led? There was nowhere he wanted to go, nothing to think about, no one waiting. How could he take a step in any direction if all direction were the same? |
✖ Via Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2003, p. 180 Previously on Skandalon: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo |
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Paul Stiff, a reader in typography and graphic communication at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, studies information design, and he is fascinated by these fragments of “demotic” wayfinding. Stiff has been accumulating homespun maps for three decades now. One of his very first finds: a map picked up from the floor of a corridor at his work, something that was “literally, a back-of-the-envelope sketch. Stiff believes that we amateurs have something to teach the pros. Our maps are efficient—they edit out unnecessary information. |
✖ Via Slate: “Do You Draw Good Maps?” by Julia Turner, March 4, 2010 This article is part of an ongoing series by Julia Turner focusing on “The Secret Language of Signs”. Previously on Skandalon: maps. |
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