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We all know impossible figures. First we could see them at Oscar Reutersvärd. With the Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher such impossible figures became known to the masses in…

Everyone of us tries to write great or great manuals, the Scottish artist Ross Sinclair already succeeded in 2000. A stranger to the branch, this is what it had to…

Light and shadow are not particularly typical in the classic, dry technical illustration. And yet light and shadow are a means of visualizing three-dimensional relationships. Quite simply: If an object…

Japan has redesigned its symbols for public information. Numerous symbols in train stations and airports have been adapted and others have been added. A commission of experts from the public…

Secretly, quietly and silently, messengers turn into true experts. Here even a function that really helps. Unfortunately we know this, new functions in apps are not always perfect from the…

The peace sign, a symbol known for the movement towards nuclear disarmament, may have more background than is generally thought to be possible. The matter seems quite clear at first.…

Typische selektive Wahrnehmung, oder steckt da doch etwas mehr dahinter? Während die Symbole der klassischen Warnzeichen vor einer eventuell eintretenden Möglichkeit warnen, sind die Folgen eines geringen Akkuladestandes überhaupt nicht…

Imagine the earth would be a perfect sphere and around this sphere runs a band at the equator, directly on the sphere. The band is now cut at one point…

In the course of the tekom 2018 conference, tekom has done something about the dusty image of technical authors. To this end, potential and young editors were addressed in an…

You have enough of promises that are not kept? What about 3D? Where is the third dimension? It is of courses in the mathematical description of the models. But we…