Washoe County Library System

"A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So...

Philographics is conceived as a visual dictionary of philosophy, which depicts the world’s most important ’isms’ using simple shapes and colour. The project merges the world philosophy and graphic design, two areas that seem completely opposites. The result is a blend is a collection of 95 graphics that boil down complex schools of thought, sometimes explained by using visual metaphors, others by using existent symbolisms or creating new ones...