An Unbearable Lightness?
This article considers various notions of 'beauty' and how these have informed the creative and critical processes of graphic design, specifically typography. The author considers how the Renaissance...
View ArticleOpinions as Norms: Applying a Return Potential Model to the Study of...
This research investigates the impact of normative intensity (i.e., strength of feeling) and crystallization (i.e., level of agreement) regarding communication behaviors and perceptions of social...
View ArticleNational Pride, Global Capital: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Transnational...
In this article we examine 561 different airline tailfin designs as a visual genre, revealing how the global-local binary may be managed and realized semiotically. Our analysis is organized into three...
View ArticleFrozen Memories: Unthawing Scott of the Antarctic in Cultural Memory
This article explores the staging of memory and death and the connotative differences within still photographs and film. It examines the tenses that can be inferred in reading photographs and film...
View Article'Faces of the Fallen' and the Dematerialization of US War Memorials
The advent of internet technology has enabled the process of memorialization of those killed in US military conflicts to keep pace with the casualties themselves and, as such, has marked a shift in...
View ArticleDo Groups Know What They Don't Know? Dealing With Missing Information in...
Although scholars have examined how individuals deal with information that is unavailable on decision-making tasks, little research has explored how groups deal with missing information. The present...
View ArticleNewspaper Design as Cultural Change
his article describes the (re-)design of newspapers and magazines as a process of cultural change which goes beyond designing a publication's layout, typography and use of colour, and includes...
View ArticleIs Copyright Blind to the Visual?
This article argues that, with respect to the copyright protection of works of visual art, the general uneasiness that has always pervaded the relationship between copyright law and concepts of...
View ArticleDigital Photography: Communication, Identity, Memory
Taking photographs seems no longer primarily an act of memory intended to safeguard a family's pictorial heritage, but is increasingly becoming a tool for an individual's identity formation and...
View ArticleDesigning for the Unexpected: The Role of Creative Group Work for Emerging...
Interaction design for new technological environments relies on the tradition of human-computer interaction (HCI). With roots in the 1980s, HCI design paradigms often reflect the setting in which the...
View ArticlePerceiving Hierarchy Through Intrinsic Color Structure
Color is an intrinsic visual attribute of form that functions as language and message. The purpose of this study was to investigate objectively structured color combinations as a means to communicate...
View ArticleSystemic Functional-Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA): Constructing...
The systemic functional (SF) approach to multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) is concerned with the theory and practice of analysing meaning arising from the use of multiple semiotic resources in...
View Article"Not Just a Colour:" Pink as a Gender and Sexuality Marker in Visual...
This article investigates the functions of the colour pink as a marker of gender and sexuality in cultural models and the multimodal texts they inform. To this end, tendencies suggested by a pilot...
View ArticleA Lesson to be Learned or "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"
This article analyses an advertisement postcard issued by a mountain bike company to promote a safe riding style. Instead of conveying a straightforward didactic message about safety, the card is shown...
View ArticleThe C30 Project
This C30 Project visual essay is a record and interrogation of a process that beganin March 2007 and continues into 2008. Building on previous local artistsin schools projects, artists David Andrew and...
View ArticleVisualizing English: A Social Semiotic History of a School Subject
In this article, the authors provide an empirically based, social semiotic account of changes in textbook design between 1930 and the present day. They look at the multimodal design of textbooks rather...
View ArticleVisual Repairables: Analysing the Work of Repair in Human–Computer Interaction
This article reports some (video-recorded) instances of `visual culture' in action, namely the use of a new software tool designed for the visualization of scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth in a...
View ArticleSpace Odyssey: Towards a Social Semiotic Model of Three-Dimensional Space
The aim of this article is to articulate a set of principles that can be applied to both the analysis and design of three-dimensional spaces. To achieve this aim, the article discusses the way...
View ArticleRemote Messaging: Exploring Graphic Manifestations of Human Relationships to...
This article explores the role of design in Ladakh, a remote region in northwestern India that was opened to tourism and trade only 35 years ago. The shift in the prevailing socio-economic structure is...
View ArticleThe Promise of "Makeability": Digital Editing Software and the Structuring of...
This article analyses amateur video editing software and considers its use within a broadly defined context of cultural practices, or `everyday cinematic life'. The authors argue that such software...
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