Status Updates From The Politics of Design: A (...

"Even the fact that we put north on the top of the map is a result of the economic dominance of Western Europe after 1500. A map does not have a privileged direction in space. After all, the earth has no up or down, and no geographical centre." Damn, true.

So Spain isn't the centre of the world? I can't cope-

"If you live in an urban environment you can probably recognise more logotypes than bird species." Oh my god we are. We so detached from our surroundings and nature.

"Visual literacy, like verbal literacy, needs to be learned. It is influenced by our experience, by how many images we have seen, ..."

Wondering if visual literacy could also be used to explain why the elderly have more trouble detecting AI generated images (the early ones, at least... :/), as they have seen less images than the average adult who is online.

Much to think about

Super interesting chapters on typefaces and the importance of not favouring latin fonts over arabic & the movement to eradicate capitalisation. Really loving this essay as a translator, loving the bits that are pertinent to my field of study and even more the ones that are not!