Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

ISBN-13: 9780367730963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Charles Kostelnick

Opis

This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, "humanizing" it.

Recenzje

"The Visual Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication is destined to become an essential book for anyone serious about the study of the human figure in functional communication. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary images, Charles Kostelnick argues persuasively that human figures in design are essential to understanding processes and stories." -Marguerite Helmers, Defining Visual Rhetorics

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Foundations for Picturing Human Forms: Conventions, Historical Context, and the Confluence of the Fine and Applied Arts
2. Human Forms in Action: Agency and Empowerment, both Individual and Collective
3. Animating Visual Narratives with Agency: Temporality, Pictures, and Human Forms
4. Figures in Cultural Context: Envisioning Identity with Human Forms
5. Emotional Appeals in Picturing People: The Rhetoric of Equanimity and Distress
6. Humanizing Data Visualization: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Designing Data with Human Forms
Conclusion/Epilogue

O autorze

Charles Kostelnick is Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA