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Blog entries by 717
Someone else made this satire starter pack... I guess I am not the only one that have notice this weird design language around autism... The only thing I would add to it is brains.
The concept of word cloud is simple: A program scan a document or a group of documents, like a website, and then generates a graphic showing the most common keywords, the size of the word is relative to the number of times the word appears... this is a helpful tool for research and marketing, so...
I kinda like the tetris more than the puzzle pieces... I actually counted the pieces and both heads have same pieces on same colors.
As another note this graphic came out related to aspergers, so I wonder if the puzzle piece is more of an autism thing and the tetris is more aspergers?
One of this is suppose to represent a normal working brain and the other one is suppose to represent an autistic working brain, but they will not tell us witch one is witch so it is open to interpretation.
Whimsical rendition of the puzzle brain, this picture is just magic... nightmares have never being this cute.
We all are tired of the puzzle piece to represent autism, so here is an idea...
What does it mean? it means Autism.
You maybe think this is weird... but then again... there is a plush brain with a rainbow loop glued to the top that you can actually buy as a gift for that special autistic...
As you can see both brains have the exact same balls on the same locations what is different is the color, the pattern and the quantity of lines.
The reason why there is not puzzle pieces in this graphic is because this graphic have solve the puzzle for good... now all they need to do is to try...
So... if you ever was confused about that question and wanted clarity, this is all you need to know... just be aware that for simplicity they left out all the other circles that would have count for strengths and I must say so myself... keeping those other circles out really helped to keep this...
I have conflicted feelings about autism cards... but in a way I get the point, when being overwhelmed and is hard to communicate, it can be helpful to hand out a card with some information... I have seeing a lot of bad designs on those... but still I understand the idea.
However this is not the...
The puzzle piece is probably one of the most recognizable icons that represent autism, so expect to see a lot of bizarre puzzle imagery here.
In today case, we have the silhouette of a person and the view inside the brain is a the typical puzzle of colors that don't really match... and this by...
So we have this thing that looks like a wheel color theory, and then it have random titles around it, but with not explanation how this titles relate to the colors.
So in this case, Information Processing is orange, witch I am going to assume is complementary with the yellow Executive...