Our age is struggling with how to express meaning and context. This talk will examine some of the ways that visual information design is responing to this need through its multiple tools of representation and will characterize some of the directions for practical and fine arts that emerge from such an exploration. As usual, drinks and snacks will be available before the talk, but we'll need to keep the timing fairly tight so that folks who have trains to catch won't miss anything.
Guests are welcome.
He speaks to national and international groups on visual language showing how it is our best chance of understanding and communicating about the many complex problems facing organizations and technology. For the past few years, Horn has also been a visiting scholar in the Program on People, Computers and Design of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He has taught graduate courses at Harvard and Columbia universities and at Sheffield University in England. Horn is also a pioneer in hypertext, the method of linking information on the World Wide Web. Horn devised the company's methodology for analyzing complex subject matter and turning it into clear, concise, efficient documents, both on paper and online.