Alan Turing

Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)

Alan Turing was an English computer scientist as well as a mathematician, he is well known for the creation of the Bombe. Bombe was the name for the electro mechanical machine which was created in 1939. The purpose of this machine was to help break the Engima codes which were used as a form of communication by the German army. His idea behind this machine was to created a 'universal machine' which would be able to solve and break codes used as a form of 'secret' communication.

 He is now known as the founder of modern computing due to his discovery which was made many years ago. Unfortunately due to the time in which he was around his skills weren't appreciated because of his sexuality.





Alan Turing: the enigma (2016) Who was Alan Turing? (Online) Available On: http://www.turing.org.uk/

Crypto Museum (2012) Bombe (Online) Available On:
http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/bombe/

Final Poster Development

Animation layers showing the use of classic tween for my interactive poster. 

The use of code snippets within my poster. 

In the final stages of developing my poster I started looking at the placement of all my elements on the poster to make it the most attractive to my audiences. In the image to the right you can see I have used a number of layers to ensure that each component correctly animates. Overall I found the whole process relativley easy.
I included a number of my own elements that have been converted to buttons so that they are interactive when the user hovers their mouse over each image. I have used a bright yellow and orange background with a black font so that it looks easy on the eye, along with the animated text on the bottom right of the poster.
When considering the overall process and final look of  my poster i am happy with the outcome. However if I was to go back and changed anything I would have spent more time on tracing the images for my poster to give a more professional look.

Poster Development

Editing of the Science Museum logo within Photoshop

The first step in making my interactive poster was to collect and edit all of my components. starting with the Science Museum logo. I sourced an image online then put it into photoshop to alter the colours, background and size. All components should be saved as a JPEG as well as PSD file. 

Initial Poster Design 1

Below are screenshots of two initial designs for my interactive poster. To create these images I found a textured watercolour image online, put it into photoshop and used different gradients, layers as well as colour schemes to achieve these two eye catching designs.  It is important to keep the logo in the top right corner so that my poster fits in with the Science Museums previous advertisements, by doing so this will make it attractive and believable to my audiences. 

Initial Poster Design 2

I felt that the yellow background would excite my audiences and hopefully attract them more, when in comparison to the green design. The bright colours against the dark, bold logo stands out to me and hopefully once there are animations and text included it will bring in my audiences to my attraction.

Hal 9000

Hal 9000 - Artificial Intelligence Computer 

Hal 9000 is a fictional character from the film '2001: A Space Odyssey' produced by Stanley Kubrick. HAL stands for 'Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer' which simply means that the purpose of this character is to portray an artificial intelligence machine on a space craft as communicating to the crew. During the time of the Cold War, funding was asked for from the US Government to enable the development of Artificial Intelligence however this wad denied, however this was around the same time as this film got realised. this shows me that back then, as well as now Artificial Intelligence is of great significance.
Within the film the character shows off its 'evil' side, showing the faults that could happen to AI in the future, this resulted in Hal 9000 being manually deactivated.

Noctournal Toothbrush (2015) Deactivating Hal 9000 HD (Complete) (Online Video) Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgkyrW2NiwM

IMDB (2016) HAL 9000 (Online) Available on: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4157058841/

Floppy Disk

8" Floppy Disk - 1971

Yoshiro Nakamatsu, the inventor of the floppy disk, this piece of technology was developed in the 1960's and was on the market by 1971. This was one of the first forms of external memory for a computer and was popular to use because it was less expensive than hard disks. With the storage size reaching 1.2MB this was a massive step forward in technology around this time, this impacted a lot of people as it allowed schools, businesses and the general public expand what their computers could do.
The original floppy disk was 8 inches to start with, but this developed over the years, they got smaller and the memory slightly expanded.
The main points of development for this technology was dust and dirt, originally it was a bare disk, however if this would be affected by dust it wouldnt work and all date stored within it would be lost. This was overcome when it was then enclosed with a fabric which would eliminate dust patricles. This then lead to the development of enclosed memory storage devices such as the USB stick and External Hardrives.  

Brown. G (2001) History of the Floppy Disk (Online) Available From:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/floppy-disk-drive1.htm (Last Accessed 26/10/16) 

Posters

Heinz Schulz - Neudamm
- 'Metropolis'
1927

This is a poster created for the 'Metropolis' film which was released in 1927, this cleverly designed due to the use of geometrical shapes and a sharp, piercing font for the title. I feel that this poster is very striking due to the elements of design within it, because it is set in a futuristic city the actual look of the poster gives off this feeling, with not much text there is still a lot to look at, it is interesting and makes me question what the film is actually about. 

John Gilroy - 'Guinness For Strength'
1934

This is an advertisement poster made by John Gilroy in 1934. With the clever use of perspective and product placement I feel that Gilroy was able to create a purposeful poster for his audience. There is barley any text on this poster, but it doesn't need a lot, it implies that drinking Guinness would be beneficial to you, however untrue this is people thought this product would make you stronger. I find that this poster is significant because it shows that the overall look can be relatively simple, yet effective.

J. Howard Miller - 'We Can Do It!'
1943

This is an american war time poster, created by J. Howard Miller as a form of propergander. Due to this being made in 1943 it was around the time of World War Two it is a very iconic piece or art work which has impacted thousands of people. The purpose of this poster is to boost moral while the men were are war. This has been done by the use to the bold, bright primary colours.

Pulver. A (2012) The 10 Most Expensive Film posters - In Pictures (Online) Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2012/mar/14/10-most-expensive-film-posters-in-pictures (Last Accessed 10/11/16) 

IMDB (1927) Metropolis (Online) Available from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ (Last Accessed 10/11/16)

Art.Com (2013) J. Howard Miller (Online) Available from: http://blog.art.com/artwiki/~/j-howard-miller/ (Last Accessed 26/10/16)

Guiness Collectors Club (2010) John Gilroy (Online) Available from: http://www.guinntiques.com/gilroy.aspx (Last Accessed 26/10/16) 

Project Cybersyn

Project Cybersyn was a groundbreaking development in the 70's, the clever design elements are what made this particular project so intriguing. The designers used light, colour and motion or help display what was happening in Chile during the time of 1971 - 1973. The machine was originally made out of around 500 fax machines which had been funded by the government at the time. The impact of this project was relatively large, it enabled us to see how the government in the 1970's went around decision making, this was a machine that was used to make a revolution in a political sense. This system helped the government to stay alive around this time, it allowed them to gain real time citizen data using new cutting edge technology with the most basic of materials.

Project Cybersyn Operations Room
1971

Each design element within the operations room has been thought through to see how it would benefit the decision making. The operations room displays a futuristic surrounding with 7 chairs, placed to create an inwards looking circle, this was done along with the exclusion of a table to promote conversation within the room, resulting in speedy decision making. Geometric shapes were used on the right hand-side panel because Beer and his team understood that the people of Chile had never used a keyboard before. The design elements were important when learning about this project, however there was no further development due to all operations being abandoned after the military coup in 1973.

Medina. E (2016) The Cybersyn Revolution (Online) Available from: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/allende-chile-beer-medina-cybersyn/ (Last Accessed 25/10/16)

O'Reilly (2015) Big Data Lessons from Our Cybernetic Past - Eden Medina (Strata + Hadoop 2015) (Online Video) Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKoaQo9GTw (Last Accessed 10/11/16)

Analytical Engine

In 1835 Charles Babbage started his work on the first

These are the cards which were used to programme the
Analytical Engine.

analytical engine. However it was in 1940 when the first general purpose machine was actually created due to Babbage struggling to get sufficient funding. The machine would run off of 'formulae' and 'data' which would be supplied by cards with holes punched in them, an idea which originated from an old fashioned loom. The machine also had a large memory capacity, it would be able to store up to 1,000 numbers which could be up to 80 decimal places. Back in the time of the 1830's this was a groundbreaking achievement in regards to technology. This wasn't the first computer to be created, however it was a point in the right direction. 

A couple years before Babble's death he started work on something called the 'Mill.' This would allow his analytical device to preform things such as; addition, multiplication and subtraction. However this unfortunately didn't develop into anything else, when Babbage passed away he wasn't that far off of creating the first computer, this seems like a disappointment, but with the invention of his analytical engine it spread to so much more.

The Babbage Engine (2016) A Brief History (Online) Available from: http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/ (Last Accessed 14/10/16)