Weather Map
天気図 / 1851– / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
The atmosphere drawn on one sheet with isobars, front symbols and weather signs. Making invisible pressure fields visible through the density of curves became the public's scientific graphic, from newspapers to television.
The density of isobars / Cold and warm front symbols / The weather-symbol system / Highs and lows labeled
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- FitzRoy's charts / international weather symbols / the design history of TV weather maps