I believe what this week's readings is trying to tell me is that we seem to be too comfortable with how things are visualised and that there are more intricate meanings and relationships as to why and how these meanings are created.
The first reading goes touches on how we symbolically use visual language to help people understand things. For example the use of dotted lines to understand what is exists and what doesn't (Timo 2006).
The types of media we use can be classified in visualization too. How we see things are just as important as how things are structured. Films, television, written documents all have their strengths and weaknesses, all have rules as to how we understand things.
It's interesting to understand that '200 calories' couldn't be easily visualised, but by using images to represent this data, we can interpret more specifically. Again, it draws on the idea of making the invisible visible. Or making things clearer by re-arranging how data is structured.
Just want to touch on this typography I've saved for a long time. It's the rules of the fight club through a visual typography. We visualize the rules through posters and scripts. But we create whole new understandings if we combine it with visual representations.
The 8 rules of Fight Club - Kinetic Typography 2008, online video, Youtube, accessed 14 May 2012, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbMa4MGFCOg>
Timo, A 2006, the dashed line in use, Touch, accessed 15 May 2012,
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