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Introduction
No full textGraphic design history is a territory where multiple interests converge but where views may diverge, especially those of design practitioners and historians. How do historical narratives shape the definition of the field practice? Conversely, how does graphic design practice contribute, or how can it contribute, to defining the ways to access and disseminate historical knowledge? How does history help to develop critical discourse about design practice? How do designers use and embed history in their practice? Finally, are the visions and agendas of practictioners and academic historians really so incompatible and distant from one another? Graphic Design History and Practice attempts to answer those questions through the voices of both designers amd historians who have been extensively involved in with the making of design history
TDM5: Grafica Italiana. Triennale Design Museum, V Edizione
No full textLa grafica è un capitolo fondamentale della storia del design italiano, che ha contribuito fortemente a costruire la realtà sociale, economica e culturale del nostro paese. La quinta edizione del Triennale Design Museum parte da questo dato rilevante, condensato già nel suo titolo.
In apertura del percorso espositivo sono citate le radici culturali più forti della grafica in Italia: la tradizione dei grandi stampatori italiani, i maestri del cartellonismo tra XIX e XX secolo, la rivoluzione tipografica del Futurismo e il razionalismo degli anni trenta. L’ordinamento si articola poi per linee tipologiche e aree di intervento: Lettere, Libri, Periodici, Cultura e Politica, Pubblicità, Imballaggi, Identità visiva, Segnali, Film e Video.
Il catalogo di TDM5 Grafica italiana ripropone nella struttura l'articolazione del percorso espositivo, fornendo al lettore uno strumento di consultazione e approfondimento attraverso un apparato di saggi scritti dai tre curatori e da altri autori invitati a riflettere su aspetti specifici della grafica italiana
Graphic Design: History and Practice
No full textUp until today, the historical narrative of graphic design has been developed to a great extent by design practitioners themselves. Mainly focused on individual professionals, artifacts, and good design examples, the narratives elaborated by designers have eventually established a territory of references that, at least since the 1990s, some have come to regard as too limited. Over time, some historians and some designers too have claimed the need to expand the field of investigation and the need to widen the interpretive framework. Some historians in particular have claimed the importance of drawing from diverse approaches and disciplines, such as material culture and visual culture, cultural and social history, anthropological studies, economic history or consumption studies etc. On the other hand, one of the main objections that design practitioners usually move to pure historians is that, because their knowledge is not rooted in practice. This kind of tension between historians and practitioners can also be found in schools where graphic design is taught. On the one hand, graphic design educators usually introduce design students to a number of historical references that can sustain them in their designing activities. On the other hand, design historians who teach in design schools are usually confronted with the need to to establish a fruitful dialogue with students who
aspire to become designers, and not historians. However, it is also notable that – especially at the level of Master's degree programmes – nowadays there is a growing interest on the part of students and young graphic designer in history and criticism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Graphic Design: History and Practice
No full textGraphic design history is a territory where multiple interests converge but where views may diverge, especially those of design practitioners and historians. How do historical narratives shape the definition of the field of practice? Conversely, how does graphic design practice contribute, or how can it contribute, to defining the ways of access and disseminate historical knowledge? How does history help to develop critical discourse about the design practice? How do designers use and embed history in their practice? Finally, are the visions and agendas of practictioners and academic historians really incompatible and distant from one another?The proceedings of the conference 'Graphic Design: History and Practice', held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art, in 2014, attempt to answer to those questions through the voices of both designers and historians who have been extensively involved with the making of design history
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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