Archive for December 2009

Visual Design Course (Session 3)

Visual Design (Part 3) from Christoph Bartneck on Vimeo. Session three deals with the composition of elements in space, proportions and contrast. In addition, we talk about page grids, page breaks, tables, figures, and bibliographies.

Visual Design Course (Session 2)

Visual Design (Part 2) from Christoph Bartneck on Vimeo. The second session deals with the color and its management in a digital workflow. We discuss color calibration, color profiles, and color spaces. Next, we discuss the anatomy of typefaces and their families before discussing legibility. In particular we introduce guidelines for typeface sizes, line spacing, [...]

Mysterious Machines

Alan Turing proposed a test for the intelligence of machines in 1950. Despite great efforts, not computer has passed this test so far. Each year, chat bots compete for the Loebner Prize, the first formal instantiation of a Turing Test. No contender was able to fool the jury yet. Major problems of the chat bots [...]

Visual Design Course (Session 1)

This first introduction to visual design deals with the underlying concepts of any visual design. The different units of measurements, sizes, proportion, file formats and software standards are being discussed. Visual Design (Part 1) from Christoph Bartneck on Vimeo.