TAKEPLACE: DESIGN AND COMIC ART

Thursday, February 3, 2011

DESIGN AND COMIC ART

Memorable information design pulls clarity, beauty and poetry out of the seemingly neutral. The Stop sign is an ubiquitous example of calm coherence. Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York Subway map is a cornerstone of Modernist elegance. Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial is a silent requiem of fallen soldiers’ names carved in granite. EyeMagazine

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TakePlace was made with you in mind It's about ideas and innovation, creative perspectives, and solutions. We're advocates for change, because change needs friends. We explore complex systems, adaptive agents, modeling, simulation, artificial life, and complex (information, biological, and social) networks. We especially focus on the Web as a complex information network in which we leave abundant traces of our social and semantic activities: what we do, what we are interested in, whom we talk to, what knowledge we acquire and contribute. Our research spans from modeling the dynamic processes that occur on the Web (how information networks grow and evolve, how individual and collective traffic patterns emerge, how attention bursts are generated and shaped by social and search tools) to designing tools that mine the Web to build better search, navigation, management, and recommendation tools (where ‘better’ means more intelligent, autonomous, robust, personalized, contextual, scalable, adaptive, and so on).