When I first pulled out Tufte's packet on Power Point, it looked like one of the most boring texts on the planet. 30 pages on the style of Power Point? But as I read, I started to see his point and even found myself laughing at certain parts (talking about the “stupefied audience”).
Maybe it's just me, but as I read Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," I couldn't help but feel that it was directed at me, especially between the ages of eleven and fifteen.
VISUAL ARGUMENTS BLOG (Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments.)
Mary E.
Updating your company's logo: prepare to hit or miss
In Richard and Davis's article " "Decorative Color as a Rhetorical Enhancement on the World Wide Web", the authors say "Omnipresent on the World Wide Web, decorative logos appeal both to ethos and pathos because they attempt to generate a positiv
Posters featuring the slogan Keep Calm and Carry On, once distributed throughout London during World War II, have seen resurgence in popularity. The iconic design is recognized by its recognized by the capital lettering set against a bold red backdrop with a crown atop the text.
April 8th, 2013
To Display, or Not Display, Data that is the Question?
When choosing to represent data in graphical form there are many options one has at hand. There are pie charts, Gantt charts, bar charts, line graphs, linear regressions, normal distributions, and countless others; the list really is endless.
In "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments," Hocks discusses the importance of transparency when creating digital and visual documents.
Since media technology has advanced past the typewriter, the capabilities of visual, and eventually digital, rhetoric using images have grown exponentially. By appealing to different human attitudes and emotions, digital images have the ability of persuasion and gaining compliance alike.
After reading the article “The rhetoric of black, white and red: Responsibility and aesthetics to persuade with color” by Jose Luis Caivano and Mabel A. Lopez the section on ritual and religious persuasion and intimidation stood out the most.
Despite my better judgment I watched the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards show on CBS last night. The band Little Big Town performed their “Your Side of the Bed” song with interesting theatrics.
The song is a slow-moving traditional ballad with predictable lyrics.
Often referred to as graffiti, tagging, or more negatively as vandalism, street-art has been around for 40ish years as it was birthed in the 70 but only gained a real popularity in the mid-80’s.
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