{"id":34724,"date":"2013-04-29T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=34724"},"modified":"2013-04-29T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:53:16","slug":"philographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/04\/29\/philographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Philographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34727\" title=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/a6830d9214f29644f87a7cfe4281ff93_large-512x356.jpg\" alt=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/a6830d9214f29644f87a7cfe4281ff93_large-512x356.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/a6830d9214f29644f87a7cfe4281ff93_large-448x311.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/a6830d9214f29644f87a7cfe4281ff93_large.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34726\" title=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.21-AM-512x353.png\" alt=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.21-AM-512x353.png 512w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.21-AM-448x309.png 448w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.21-AM.png 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34725 aligncenter\" title=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.00-AM-512x354.png\" alt=\"Philographics: Genis Carreras\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.00-AM-512x354.png 512w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.00-AM-448x310.png 448w, https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11.01.00-AM.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[quote]<strong>A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is\u00a0<em>nothing left to take away<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery[\/quote]<\/p>\n<p>I discovered the work of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniscarreras.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genis Carreras<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2107351723\/philographics-big-ideas-in-simple-shapes?ref=NewsApr2513&amp;utm_campaign=Apr25&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">his Kickstarter campaign<\/a> this morning, and I think it&#8217;s brilliant. I&#8217;m a big fan of paring down concepts and ideas into simpler, digestible chunks and his project, Philographics aim to distill the meanings of various philosophical -isms out there into a simple graphic and accompanying text that&#8217;s as simple as the image itself.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing complex matters into something that is able to be understood easily takes great skill \u2013 conversely (and ironically!) it doesn&#8217;t take much for simple matters to get wholly complicated. And therein lies the beauty of the project. It&#8217;s definitely something to think about (especially for students) when communicating ideas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Monday folks! Also, don&#8217;t forget that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/04\/23\/sponsor-giveaway-draw-your-own-alphabet\/\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway of the Draw Your Own Alphabets book is ending tomorrow<\/a>, so share with me your favorite fonts to be one of five lucky winners!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Philographics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/04\/29\/philographics\/\" aria-label=\"More on Philographics\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[123,92],"tags":[311,224,223],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34724"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34737,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34724\/revisions\/34737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}