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Manuel Lima was born on 3 May, 1978 in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, is a Manuel Lima FRSA is designer, author. Discover Manuel Lima's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?

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Occupation Designer, lecturer, advisor, author.
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 3 May 1978
Birthday 3 May
Birthplace Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Nationality Portugal

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1978

Manuel Lima FRSA (born May 3, 1978) is a Portuguese–American designer, author, and lecturer known for his work in information visualization and visual culture.

He is the author of three books translated into several languages and currently resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Lima grew up in São Miguel Island, in the Azores, Portugal.

From an early age, Lima showed an interest in the visual language of maps, many of which were kept in a cabinet at home from various family road trips.

His dad has also been an important catalyst in his appreciation for design.

In his second evolutionary explanation, Lima mentions the experiment conducted by psychologist John N. Bassili in 1978, where the faces of participants were painted black and subsequently covered in dozens of luminescent dots.

Participants were then asked to express different emotions in order to better understand the visual contour of each sentiment.

As Lima describes:

"while expressions of anger showed acute downward V shapes (angled eyebrows, cheeks, and chin), expressions of happiness were conveyed by expansive, outward curved patterns (arched cheeks, eyes, and mouth). In other words, happy faces resembled an expansive circle, while angry faces resembled a downward triangle."

In his third point, Lima hypothesizes on how the circular framing and spherical geometry of our visual field, which cause a distortion similar to a "fish-eye lens" or a "crystal ball", could further "reinforce our innate tendency toward all things circular".

"Perhaps the brain prefers forms and contours that have a better fit within such a conditioned field of view."

says Lima.

1996

In 1996, at the age of eighteen, he moved to Lisbon to pursue a BFA degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Lisbon.

2004

Lima said that a lecture from his Parsons teacher Christopher Kirwan in 2004 was the moment that drove him towards information design.

2005

After an internship in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the design studio Kontrapunkt, Lima went on to study at Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he received an MFA in Design and Technology in 2005.

It was during his time at PIIM, that Lima consolidated his research in information visualization and complex networks leading to the creation in October 2005 of VisualComplexity.com, an online archive for network visualization.

Following his MFA, Lima worked as a designer and manager for an advertising agency R/GA, mobile phone maker Nokia, Microsoft Bing, and Codecademy.

He currently works for Google as a Design Lead and Startup Mentor.

2006

Lima mentions that from an early age babies show an innate preference for curves, a human tendency corroborated by different studies, including a seminal paper published in 2006 by cognitive psychologists Moshe Bar and Maital Neta, which revealed a strong human preference for curved objects and typefaces, as well as a 2013 study by researchers at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, which found a similar inclination in architectural spaces.

2009

His thesis "Blogviz: Mapping the dynamics of Information Diffusion in Blogspace" was subsequently published by Omniscriptum Publishing in 2009.

During his MFA program, Lima worked for Siemens Corporate Research Center, the American Museum of Moving Image, and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM).

Lima was nominated by Creativity magazine as "one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009" and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2010.

2011

In his first book Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (2011), Lima covers the growing popularity of the network construct, not just as a scientific pursuit but as a cultural meme.

In chapter six Complex Beauty, Lima introduces a new movement or "artistic trend" characterized by the depiction of metaphorical graph structures, which he labels "Networkism".

As Lima explains:

"Networkism is stimulated by rhizomatic properties like nonlinearity, multiplicity, or interconnectedness, and scientific advances in areas such as genetics, neuroscience, physics, molecular biology, computer systems, and sociology. As a direct consequence of the recent outburst of network visualization, networkism is equally motivated by the unveiling of new knowledge domains as well as the visual representation of complex systems."

Sharon Molloy, Emma McNally, Janice Caswell, Tomás Saraceno, and Chiharu Shiota are amongst the artists presented by Lima as precursors of this movement.

2016

Lima was selected for the Innovative Entrepreneurship Award in the Portuguese Diaspora (Prémio Empreendedorismo Inovador na Diáspora Portuguesa) by the Portuguese President and was elected the curator for the Portuguese delegation at the London Design Biennale 2016.

2017

In the Introduction of The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge (2017), Lima provides an evolutionary explanation for our propensity towards circular shapes.

His account comprises three hypotheses: