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Volume 1, Issue 2, 1979
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Image design and modification: An experimental project in transforming
Author(s): David Slesspp.: 74–80 (7)More LessThis paper reports an experimental pedagogic investigation of design behaviour. The subjects were design students and they were required to modify an image on the basis of feedback from a target audience. Results showed a consistent improvement in performance of the image with successive modifications. The study also shows a progressive build-up of resistance on the part of subjects to further modifications of the image. The implications for design education and practice are discussed.
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Directional hospital signs as sociological data
Author(s): Wesley W. Sharrock and Digby C. Andersonpp.: 81–94 (14)More LessThe authors use some photographs of hospital signs to illustrate basic issues in the analysis of signs. They discuss the issues of quantity of data, of pragmatics, of the unity of 'disparate' data, of location, juxtaposition, and of sequence, showing the many ways in which sign reading is an embedded activity. The latter part of the paper discusses the possibility of generalising their analysis to other sig
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Iconic design for educational publishing
Author(s): Gerald Macdonaldpp.: 95–97 (3)More LessThis article describes a type of design for print in which images and text are inseparably meshed. This, it is suggested, would reach an audience which now finds educational books inaccessible.
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Writing to inform: Making it readable
Author(s): George R. Klarepp.: 98–105 (8)More LessPersons who write to inform others need to consider how readable their writing will be. The issue breaks down into two sub-questions; predicting how readable an existing piece of writing will be, and producing a readable piece of writing. Exact answers to these complex questions cannot be given, but research has begun to provide some useful suggestions which can help to make writing more efficient to read, easier to understand, and more likely to be accepted.
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The visual rhetoric of propaganda
Author(s): Victor Margolinpp.: 107–122 (16)More LessThis paper reviews the history of propaganda from classical Greece to the present day. Three levels of political propaganda are proposed — myth, ideology and action — and their interaction described. The prevalence of propaganda techniques is identified in numerous regimes — both wartime and peace-time, and both totalitarian and democratic
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The graphics triangle
Author(s): Bruce Brownpp.: 123–134 (12)More LessA definition is proposed for three basic values used in attempting communication; these values are then compared and combined in a model which recognises areas of design activity. This model is then used as a diagnostic tool to elucidate contemporary attitudes toward the design of communications.
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Volume 8 (1995)
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