Monday, October 20, 2008

World Record for Texting!


I was working on a design problem for my concepts class and was searching for a world record to illustrate. I found a world record for text messaging. Seventeen-year-old Andrew Acklin sent or received 19,678 text messages in a single billing cycle! The sheer number of text messages led me to look at what impact this behavior is having on other modes of communication, particularly verbalization.

As it turns out there were many headlines to be found linking teenage text messaging to poor interpersonal skills in the work place. As a result of looking at these headlines I put together this visual illustration entitled "TXT".

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