In search of visual texture An Article by Rachel Prudden obliqueville.substack.com I’m now more inclined to attribute Looseleaf’s power to its visual texture than to some cognitive media-style abstraction. And the visual texture owes more to the beauty (yes, beauty!) of the original pdfs from the Vasulka Archive. Perhaps the demo is best understood not as a prototype generic tool, but as a specific curated experience in its own right, with form and content claiming equal importance in its overall success. Even so, I think there are some general lessons that can be drawn from this demo: Content is not inert Visual texture lets content breathe Visual texture lets the eye wander without losing itself Looseleaf texturetypographybeautyinterfacesvisualization
Urban form and grain One square mile of different cities' street networks, held at the same scale to compare the urban form and grain. Geoff Boeing, The Right Tools for the Job Cityspace series mapscities