Alderman, Borruso, and Adigard on TV's transformation

John Alderman and Sarah Borruso, veteran thinkers/reporters on technology and culture, teamed up with virtuoso designer Erik Adigard (M-A-D) in a visual/textual exercise pondering how TV is transforming as a media. The result is "Exploding TV: From One to Many to Many to Many," a smart and graphically stunning poster that they presented at the 2006 Information Architecture Summit. The poster was also reprinted in 10×10, a fun PDF magazine published by Eat Creative in Japan.

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John says:

The poster came about because Erik, Sarah, and I were all doing work with IPTV and mobile TV, and we proposed a poster for the IA Summit in Vancouver, while simultaneously Eat asked for a submission to 10×10. Mainly we just wanted to do some thinking about the properties of TV as it changed from broadcast to Internet distribution, like how that changed the whole underlying dynamics. On top of that, there were all kinds of new devices popping up demanding new kinds of content. So we
wanted to start connecting some dots.

Link to 10×10 (PDF)