Patricia *// Arashi!

This is a very educational and sourceful movie which talkes about the historical development of the front Helvatica and many typographers’ opinion toward this front.

Personally, I have never used this front before. I always use Ariel, Times New Roman (teacher request) or other cute fronts.  However, throught the movie, I realize that many company use Helvetica for their logos. Such as McDonald’s and American Airline.

Some typographers like this front because they think it’s clear, clean, professional, understandable and neutral. On the other hand, there are some other typographers who don’t like this front because they think it has been over used and they feel better to use Ariel. However, it’s really subjective because everyone feels differently.

Throught my movie, I understand that design a type of front is not easy. You need to notice every little details and you need to worry if user will like this front or not. The sketch of a front it not only a piece of paper. it’s a book. Typographers need to draw many differnet picture to clearly describe the front in order to establish the front. Every front you choose in Words is well-designed by those typographers.

 Typographer is a really interesting job and I think i will be more willing to know more about typographer’s job instead of the history of a front !

This presentation discusses if our world become a better place or not by comparing the children per woman and the death rate in each countries for the past 50 years. The graph starts at 1962 and separates the world into two categories: industrialized countries and developing countires. In general, industrialized countries, such as United States, France, Romania, have death rate lower than 10% and each woman has less than four children. However, those developing countries, such as China, Iraq, Thailand, have death rate from 10% to 40% and each woman has four to eight children. After 1962, those developing countries gradually become industrialization countries by export bicycles, clothes, and shoes. While these countires become industrialized, their death rate dramatically drop to about 20% and each woman has less than seven children. At the end of the presentation, it foucus on one nation, which is Bangladesh, and specifically traces its death rate and children per woman to show us how our world becomes different. Best of all, you can click on those circles to see each countries’ death rate and children per woman.

This is a very interesting and amazing presentation that shows us how the world change over time. Overall, this is a very good presentation .The graph in very clear, easy to understand and  Each continent has a color and each country is represent by a circle and the size of the circle is correspond to the population.

http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/has-the-world-become-a-better-place-2005.html