This visual map shows how business units of The Walt Disney Company contribute to each other’s activities. Stunning, he drew this in 1957.
I blogged a while ago: “Architects are comfortable with the idea of creating visual maps and blueprints. They seem less inclined, however, to see the value in ‘less scientific’ visual expressions. Scott McCloud does a great job of resolving this science v. arts discomfort. He uses a number of phrases that rung-a-IS-architecture-bell for me – he talks about “watching for patterns” and explains the journey from “visual iconography to language” and creating “temporal maps” – this is the stuff of IS architecture”.
Original post: http://servicefab.blogspot.com/2009/03/serious-about-play-and-comics.html (sorry about the broken links – :-()
I thought there was a connection between EA and cartoonists, now I have the evidence! 🙂
Vic Gee wrote: “Aside from its sparkling clarity of business vision, it is interesting because of its date, 1957”
Vic Gee wrote: “Aside from its sparkling clarity of business vision, it is interesting because of its date, 1957”
(I earlier ascribed this to Roy Grubb, because he pointed out the image to me – now updated.)
