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15th April 2024

AUTOGRAPHIC DESIGN: THE MATTER OF DATA IN A SELF-INSCRIBING WORLD

AUTOGRAPHIC DESIGN: THE MATTER OF DATA IN A SELF-INSCRIBING WORLD

Dietmar Offenhuber

The MIT Press

2024

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An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract. Data analysis and visualization are crucial tools in today's society, and digital representations have steadily become the default. In this book, Dietmar Offenhuber presents a model for these practices, a model to make data generation accountable: autographic design. Autographic refers to the notion that every event inscribes itself in countless ways. Inspired by such post-digital practices of visualization and evidence construction, Offenhuber describes an approach to visualization based on the premise that data is a material entity rather than an abstract representation. In Autographic Design, Offenhuber introduces a model for design that emphasizes traces, imprints, and self-inscriptions, turning them into sensory displays.

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