As part of my dissertation work, I have come across an extremely interesting pamphlet called The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte. Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale and he is something of a guru, it seems, on statistical evidence, analytical design and interface design. In the extremely readable pamphlet, Tufte eviscerates the use [...]
It’s been a busy week – a busy few weeks in fact. Tomorrow is deadline day for the second semester essays here at Ridley. Essentially, academically speaking, it’s the culmination of my first year. In the last few weeks and days, I’ve written four different essays. There is one on iconography and what it can [...]
I preached for the first time at my placement church today. I don’t usually preach from a script (I usually work from a system of bullet-points) but I decided to do so today. For anyone who is interested, what I said follows below. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, [...]