LOGO is a programming language incorporating turtle graphics, originally devised for teaching computing to young children in elementary and middle schools.
"It's memorable — even if the implications of what he is saying is terrible," says George Lois, the renowned New York ad man and graphic designer who devised iconic covers for Esquire and conceived the "I Want My MTV" campaign in the early '80s.
The Dutchman Bob Noorda devised the graphic component of one of Italy's most ambitious early 1960s design projects, the Milan subway system, before teaming up with Mr. Vignelli to co-found the Unimark International design group.
Astronomers have devised a graphic way to explain the evolution of the stellar population in the Milky Way Galaxy, using a three-dimensional plot in which the age, the abundance of heavy elements, and the rate of star formation are all taken into account.
The petroglyph of a group of giraffes from Niger, carved as if in the manner of a checkerboard about 10,000 years ago, and the scene of an archer hunting bears and reindeer, found in Norway in 1973, prefigure the reductive approach to design devised for information graphics in the 20th century; they also recall the minimalist glyphs used by Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
The stripy typeface was devised by the graphic designer Frith Kerr founder of Studio Frith, working with Chisenhale's newly appointed director, Polly Staple.
With help from some of our techno-genies, David devised an interactive graphic that lets you choose from a menu of tax increases and spending cuts and benefit tweaks until the budget balances.
Devised by the graphic designer Nigel Evan Dennis as a personal tribute to the show, the site uses color coding and symbolism to trace the complex allegiances between the characters so ingeniously, that deciphering it is nearly as much fun as watching the Starks and their wolves battle their foes on the screen.
The Trance War: Archives and Documentation, 1998 – Ongoing, a project the producer and DJ devised alongside the graphic designer David Rudnick, with the support of Warp and Arts Council England was the kind of project that shows that, yes, dance music — to use that reductive, unhelpful, meaningless term — can use gallery space as intriguingly as visual artists can and do.
It uses an NVIDIA graphics card and 3-D glasses devised for gaming.
