“What is not defined cannot be measured. What is not measured, cannot be improved. What is not improved, is always degraded” – Thomas Kelvin (1890s)

If this statement is true – abstraction is degrading, but what would it look like to measure it? This project seeks to comment on the human urge to have an answer for everything, mapping and defining visual abstraction through looking at existing measure systems. Conceptually systemising and rationalising something that in its definition cannot be measured, creating an illusion of trust at first glance by using academic visual language. A fabricated research paper is being presented along with all its supporting explorations, highlighting our assumption of authority when seeing diagrams and graphs. This theme was explored in two parts, one for abstraction in typography (see below) and an extension into visual abstraction.