Primer: Iconography, Interface and the Eames Part 1 Dissertation 2013 Kieran Cremin University College Cork | Ireland In 1953, Charles and Ray Eames made a film outlining the basic principles of Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver’s theory of communication: A Communications Primer. Serving as a lens between the public and the computer and latent with the potential of technology for the coming information age, the film became a self-fulfilling prophecy: an interface about interface. Following typical Eames’ methodology, this dissertation draws upon a wide range of opinion – from media theorists and architectural critics, to philosophers and physicists – in organising a discourse on the nature of human interaction with technology and asks the question: did the Primer start it all? Tutor(s) Dr Gary Boyd