In Monday's session with Fred we looked at researching different things based on our previous work for the OUGD405 module. We looked at themes and subjects and categorising our research between each one. I then went on to look at 10 different words and researched 10 words, 10 facts, 10 objects and 10 people relating to each one. Here are some images from the session and my research;
Technology.
10 words. Applied Science / Computers / Industry / Mechanics / Machinery / Engineering / Robotics / Electronics / Telecommunication / Automation
10 facts. In February 2009, Twitter had a monthly growth of users over 1300% more than Facebook / 23% of children under 5 have used the internet / One in four children learns to use the internet before they learn to read / R Tomlinson was the first person on record to have sent emails / 1% of the 650 million email accounts are plugged into hardware the rest use mobile devices / Almost 50% of internet users have at least 3 email accounts / Spam accounts for over 60% of all emails / Anthony Greco, aged 18, was the first person arrested for spam in 2005 / In 2009 Microsoft internet explorer accounted for 67.68% of all browsers
10 Objects. Computer / Mouse / Keyboard / iPhone / Blackberry / Screen / Hard Drive / Headphones / TV / iPod
10 people. R Tomlinson / Anthony Greco / Technical director / Herbert Marcuse / Programmer / John Zerzan / Jacques Ellul / Bill Gates / Steve Jobs / Thomas Edderson
Information Graphics
10 words. Symbolism / Code / Information / Colours / Facts / Figures / Quantitative / Qualitative / Data / Analysis
10 Facts. 45% more web users will click on a link if it involves infographics / 30% of people lass on information graphics even if they personally find the information useless / 100 information graphics are released everyday on the internet / By 2012 all blog posts will include information graphics somewhere in the post / Information graphics is a graphic visual representation of information / Infographics creation increases by 1% every single day / 100 people a day send information graphics over the internet instead of typing what they intend to say / The basic material of infographics is the data or facts that it includes / 62% of people who read information graphics do so because they can not understand information without big text and pictures / 67% of people who read information graphics do so because they enjoy the aesthetics of the design
10 Objects. Pen / Paper / Computer / TrackPad / Mouse / Screen / Printer / Guillotine / Light Box / Ink
10 People. John Deere / Peter Sullivan / Graphic Designer / Richard Saul Wurman / Nigel Holmes / Edward Tufte / Explanation Architect / Doug Newsom / James Joseph Sylvester / Charles Joseph Minard
Miniature Paper Airplanes
10 words. Paper / Small / Miniature / Craft / Fold / Design / Origami / Construct / Airplane / Fly
10 Facts. The smallest created paper airplane was made form a piece of paper 2.99mm squared using a microscope and tweezers / The practice of constructing paper planes is sometimes referred to as aerogami / Aerogami is taken from the original term Origami / Origami originates from the japanese art of folding paper / The origin of folded paper gliders is generally considered to be of Ancient China / The most significant use of paper models in aircraft designs were by the Wright brothers between 1899 and 1903 / The world's first known published forward gliding paper autogyro with forward pointing body lifted by spinning blades was built by James Zongke / The longest flight time is 27.6 seconds / The smallest paper airplane fits on top of a 2pence piece
10 Objects. Paper / Scissors / Cellotape / Ruler / 2 penny / Card / Targets / String / Board games / Postcards
10 people. Wright Brothers / Children / Richard K Neu / Teachers / Jack Northrop / Ken blackburn / Tim Richardson / Edmond Hui / Michael LaFosse / James Zonker
Paper Folding
10 words. Fold / Paper / Crease / Layer / Card / Doubled / Origami / Cut / Tear / Rip
10 facts. It is impossible to fold a piece if paper in half more than 7 times / The word paper derives from Papyrus / Papyrus is the name of the ancient material manufactured from beaten reeds in Egypt / Indeed, the earliest known example of "paper folding" is an ancient Egyptian map / Intricate paper folding as an art form didn't become possible until the introduction of wood-pulp based papers in China / The first Japanese origami is dated from the 6th century A.D / It lends itself to a wide range of techniques, for example; it can be folded, cut, glued, moulded, stitched, or layered / The smallest origami crane in the world was made by Naito Akira folding plastic film measuring 0.1 by 0.1 mm / It took approximately 200 people 7.5 hours to fold the square paper which measured 212 feet per side / Paper airplanes are typically made with a standard 8 1/2 X 11" sheet of paper.
10 objects. Paper / Card / Paper weight / Craft knife / Ruler / Paper clips / Stapler / Glue / Scissors / string
10 people. Ihara Saikaku / Samurai Warriors / Akira Yoshizawa / Kosho Uchiyama / Robert Lang / Chinese Refugees / John Smith / Alex Bateman / Eric Gjerde / Meguro Toshiyuki
Communication
10 words. Information / Sender / Message / Recipient / Receiver / Symbols / Code / Oral / Written / Braille
10 facts. The average British household now spends £93.63 a month on their communication services / In particular web and mobile use has boomed in the last five years / In 2002 the average Briton used the net for six minutes a day. Now that has hit 24 minutes / Mobile use has doubled from five to 10 minutes per day / The average Briton is not only using the net more they are going online faster than they used to / In 2002 barely 4% of households had broadband but five years later the figure stands at 58% / By comparison only 67% of all households have net access / The communications watchdog noted that although people aged 18-34 account for only 23% of the population they soak up 36% of all net use / The number of mobile only homes has stayed steady, 10%, in the past three years and is well below many other European nations / French mobile users send 20.4 messages a month and Germans average 22.8. British people, by contrast, send a whopping 67
10 objects. Mobile Phone / Laptop / Dongle / Land-line telephone / Computer / Paper / Pen / Stamps / Television / Radio
10 people. Alexander Bell / Young Adults / Reginald Fessenden / Donald L Hings / Alfred J Gross / Dan Noble / J H Muller / Charles Babbage / John V Atanasoff / Clifford Berry
Smartphone Apps
10 words. Mobile Phone / Mobile Computing / iPhone / Blackberry / Android / Touchscreen / Web browser / Wifi / Broadband / Operating Systems
10 facts. The iTunes app store has served well over 1 Billion downloaded applications / 98% of iPhone users use the data features of their phone / 88% use their iPhone to surf the internet and 75% download apps / Facebook accounts for 50% of all mobile internet traffic in the UK / 50% of iPhone users are under thirty, and 15% are students / 75% of UK iPhone users are males, mostly between the ages of 18-44 / By mid-January 2010, three billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store alone / Apps that break the top 50 are generally downloaded over 10,000 times daily / There are 6.2 million smartphone users in the UK, with 2 million using iPhones / There are over 140,000 applications in Apple’s iTunes App Store
10 objects. iPhone / Blackberry / Android / Mobile Phone / Keypad / LCD screen / Stylus pen / iPad / iMac / Macbook
10 people. Steve Jobs / Bill Gates / Young Adults /
Information Manuals
10 words. Facts / Figures / Paper / Card / Printers / Ink / Educational / Informative / Leaflets / Booklets
10 facts. Informative leaflets contain common formulae and information for the following topics: algebra, trigonometry, hyperbolic functions, matrices and derterminants, sequences and series, complex numbers, integration and differentiation / The majority of leaflets are health related or used for the NHS / Information manuals can be informative or instructive / Many information leaflets are pursuasive and try to lure the reader and opinionate them / Information manuals are increasingly becoming more digital base than print /
10 objects. Paper / Card / Ink / Printer / Ruler / Craft Knife / Cutting mat / Computer / Pencil / Keyboard
10 people. Graphic designers / Agencies / Clients
Weights and Sizes of Paper
10 words. Weight / Size / Paper / Card / grams / thickness / quality / sheets / texture / scales
10 facts. The paper density of a type of paper or paperboard is the mass of the product per unit of area / Paper density is a measure of the area density / Paper products that let little or no light pass through (e.g. poster board) are considered dense or heavy / Paper products that allow some light to pass through (e.g. tissue paper) are considered lightweight / Paper density is commonly expressed in grams per square metre (g/m²) / paper density is also known as grammage / Grammage is the measure used in most parts of the world / The convention used in the United States and a few other countries using US paper sizes is pounds of a ream of 500 (or in some cases 1000) sheets of a given (raw, still uncut) basis size / Japanese paper is expressed as the weight in kg of 1000 sheets / Typical office paper has 80 g/m², therefore a typical A4 sheet (1⁄16 m²) weighs 5 g
10 objects. Paper / Card / Scales / Paper weights /
10 people. Designers / Printers / Students /
Origami
10 words. Paper / Card / Folding / Craft / Structure / Model / Design / Decoration / Occasion / Crease
10 facts. Origami is a japanese tradition / The smallest origami crane is most likely made by Mr. Naito of Japan / He used progressively smaller and smaller squares until the the smallest crane was made from a 0.1 x 0.1 mm square / In August 1998, a 207 feet origami crane was made in Odate, Akita, Japan / In November 1999, Wings for Peace created the world's largest paper crane: it was over 215 feet wide, and approximately 1750 pounds. Seattle, WA, USA / A Giant King Cobra (Ronald Koh), measuring just under 150 feet long, was folded in Singapore to celebrate the year of the snake. Sentarosa, Singapore, March, 2001 / June 2003: While in space, astronauts in the International Space Station folded a polyhedron (called a hebesphenomegacorona) and stuck it to the window. Outside the window is a view of the Pacific Ocean with clouds overhead / In 2005, Chronicle Books published a book called Baby-Gami. Baby-Gami is all about folding blankets around babies. This art form is actually called swaddling and is well known to mothers throughout the world. Young babies are wrapped up tight so they feel like they are still in the confines of the womb / In July 2007, Vignesh Cumareshan made 1002 origami swans for an Arangetram (Musical Graduation Concert). The 1000 small swans were made from 10 cm square sheets of paper. The two large swans were made from A1 paper (59.4 cm × 84.1 cm) / Akira Yoshizawa is considered the Grand Master of modern Origami. He created over 50,000 origami models; invented wet-folding; and developed a method of diagramming origami instructions. Mr. Yoshizawa passed away in March 2005, he was 94
10 Objects. Paper / Card / Paper Weight / Swans / Magnifying glass / Cranes / Planes / Tweezers / Animals / Flowers
10 People. Vignesh Cumareshan / Children / Akira Yoshizawa / Mr. Naito
Air Mailing
10 words. Mail / Post / Airplane / Royal Mail / Envelope / Cost / Tracking / Surface Mail / Air Mail / Ships
10 facts. The first mail to be carried by an air vehicle was on January 7, 1785, on a hot air balloon flight from Dover to France near Calais / During the first aerial flight in North America by balloon on January 9, 1793, from Philadelphia to New Jersey, Jean-Pierre Blanchard carried a personal letter from George Washington to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to land on, making the flight the first delivery of air mail in the United States / The first official air mail delivery in the United States took place on August 17, 1859, when John Wise piloted a balloon starting in Indiana with a destination of New York Weather issues forced him to land in Indiana and the mail reached its final destination via train. In 1959 the U.S. Postal Service issued a 7 cent stamp commemorating the event / Balloons also carried mail out of Paris and Metz during the Franco-Prussian War (1870), drifting over the heads of the Germans besieging those cities / Balloon Mail was also carried on an 1877 flight in Tennessee / The introduction of the airplane in 1903 generated immediate interest in using them for mail transport / The first "quasi-official" airmail flight was conducted by Fred Wiseman, who carried three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California on February 17, 1911 / The world's first scheduled airmail post service took place in the United Kingdom between the London suburb of Hendon, and Windsor, Berkshire, on September 9, 1911 / In the aftermath of the First World War the Royal Engineers (Postal Section) and the Royal Air Forces pioneered a scheduled airmail service between Kent and Germany / Throughout the 1920s the Royal Air Force continued to develop air routes through the Middle East
10 Objects. Plane / Balloon / Boat / Envelope / Letter / Parcels /
10 people. Jean-Pierre Blanchard / George Washington / John Wise / British / Germans / Americans / Fred Wiseman / Walter Folger Brown / Nevile Shute / Gunther Pluschow
