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Record W2008868165 · doi:10.1093/jdh/epu031

The Story of Design

2014· article· en· W2008868165 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Design History · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDesign Education and Practice
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBeautyVisual artsTypefaceTable (database)NonsenseArtSelection (genetic algorithm)Quarter (Canadian coin)Column (typography)Art historyTable of contentsComputer scienceHistoryAestheticsWorld Wide WebArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Writing a general history of design is a challenge which has been approached in a number of ways over the years, from Adrian Forty’s episodic Objects of Desire (Pantheon Books, New York, 1986), to Alice Rawsthorn’s recent issue-oriented Hello World (Hamish Hamilton, London, 2013). Running to 500 crown quarto pages, The Story of Design is a lavishly illustrated book, which makes some ambitious claims towards comprehensiveness in both press release and back cover. Laid out in a clear and readable manner, it displays good quality paper and binding, a no-nonsense table of contents, and a two-column layout which balances text and image throughout in a varied and engaging manner. Almost every page is illustrated, ranging from quarter to double page spreads, and these illustrations form a lively visual discussion alongside and in dialogue with the text, particularly as they represent a selection of images beyond the obvious ‘beauty shots’ of products on white backgrounds. They include a number of drawings (such as engravings, technical, patent and catalogue drawings), and contemporary photographs and advertisements, as well as ancillary material such as ergonomic diagrams and original covers of influential books and magazines.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.959
Threshold uncertainty score0.269

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it