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BE BRAVE AND ITERATE! Dean is visual thinker who blends experience and expertise across multiple disciplines (technology, marketing, design, art, performance and management) as a Design Thinking and Innovation Management Consultant, Trainer, and Transformational Coach. He is happiest when working visually in innovation, user experience, education, and transformation—even more when they are all combined into one! His goal with VizWorld is to create and hold the space for visual thinkers who are looking for news and information about applied design thinking practices and innovation in life, education and work.

Comics, Dataviz, and a More Authentic Transmedia: The Ethics of Transmedia Fatigue

Sometimes, as Stuart Moore writes in Wolverine: Under the Boardwalk, you just gotta disappear.

Source: www.popmatters.com

Where does cyber security analysis connect to comics? Article author shathley Q (@uuizardry on Twitter), in his attempt to step away from ComicCon, apparently stepped right back into the world of comics while watching a TEDx talk by cyber security analyst Cris Domas.

Domas, overwhelmed at looking through the massive quantities of binary code, discovered that the visual patterns this non-visual data creates could  surface regular patterns…images… shapes.. 

Furthermore, like comics, which depends on images that build on everything from visual symbols to symbolic (iconographic) imagery, it’s possible to use the “sequential” side of the sequential art to further understand and recognize patterns, particularly, for the case of security, where regular, or expected patterns are broken. 

Shathley Q may, in this article, want to step back a little from comics, but the ethos seems to be everywhere he looks. As should we.

Autodesk acquires NYC design studio The Living

High tech meets green in projects like having mussels “vocalize” changes in water quality.

Source: gfxspeak.com

Autodesk is bigger than you think…and not the only company in the graphics/design/cad/animation/3D space with big reach, wide reach, and big ideas that have threads that link together.

The interesting choice is finding a company that seems to have a good grasp on Biomimicry, along with 3D printing and robotics.

Read the article, and tell us what you think…

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