Center for Strategic Communication

What eye and mind can reasonably absorb

by | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — visual thinking, graphical presentation, the magical number seven plus or minus two, human intelligence ] . Look: click image to download pdf & see pp 12-13 for closer, full-size look Got it? That’s part of a double-page spread...

Life imitates art, or vice versa?

by | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — burqas and veiled threats, Martha Nussbaum, virtual reality ] . I believe the photo is from Dubai, the cartoon is by New Zealand’s Malcolm Evans, and all sorts of things are going on when we put the two of them together, thus: ** For...

The best war game is a library of windows

by | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Borges, simulating the future, wargames, A Pattern Language, Sembl ] . MC Escher, Relativity. Ridiculous phrase, a library of windows. Unless you think, as I do, of books as windows onto different worlds, in which case it makes a...