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"Designed to respond to the growing needs of professionals and those in academia, this book is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to making effective presentations. Written in a clear and accessible style, the author provides a very friendly approach to a process that is often a nerve-wracking task for many. The author discusses how to plan presentations across disciplines, their delivery and aesthetics, with helpful tips throughout." "The book is...

Designer Holland presents 34 of the "Design Issues" columns, written by 20 different authors, originally published in Communication Arts magazine under her tenure as editor of design issues. The contributions on graphic design are organized into sections on branding, critical design, ethics, the tension between designer creativity and client satisfaction, and the place of graphics design in the wider world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc.,...

In this guide to presentation design, you'll learn: 1) What makes a good presentation or a bad one; 2) How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation; 3) Four principles for developing effective presentations; 4) Four priniciples for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly; 5) Specific tips for charts, graphs, animation, and video; and 6) An exhaustive list of timeless presentation rules ... that you should totally ignore. --Publisher's...

Examines the increasing role of visual information in newspapers. Encourages students to develop their analytical skills in visual literacy and consider how newspapers rely heavily on the power of the picture. Looks at the production of photography, cartoons, and graphic design, the process of choice and editorial decision making, and the critical analysis of the meaning of visual images. Considers factors that shape the meaning of visual images.

"We have entered the period of Big Data, where huge amounts of information can be gathered and processed with ever greater speeds, where algorithms have become so refined that they can predict behavior and tell us what we want. Increasingly, graphic designers and illustrators try to understand what all the information we have collected really means and how we can make sense of it to improve our personal and professional lives. This is not new: humans...

When artists worked in the service of the state, they glorified their cities and gave them imposing facades. But as the place of artists in society has matured over the centuries, artistic expression has became increasingly more penetrating. Beginning with the Renaissance, this program describes how visual artists have represented, deconstructed, and reconstructed the cityscape as they dealt with issues of spatial perspective, the delineation of public...

Throughout the history of painting and sculpture no muse has exerted more influence than the artist's model. This program studies the role of the human form in art, focusing on complex relationships between famous male artists and their female subjects. Works featuring the male figure are also examined. Discussing numerous artistic milestones-including classical Greek statuary, Masaccio's revival of human-centered themes, Botticelli's ethereal Primavera...

Physical metamorphosis as a theme in painting, sculpture, photography, and cinema reveals an ongoing fascination with all manner of transformations and distortions of the human form. Ranging from classical to modern times, this program presents zoomorphism; hybrids from mythology, the hells of Hieronymus Bosch, and the caricatures of Granville; "botanomorphism," people as plants; treatments of body as landscape and landscape as body; the personification...

The use of special light effects as a narrative element; the suggestion of an internal source of light in the work of Rembrandt and his followers; Vermeer's alternation of sunlight and shadow; the absence of shadow in Mondrian; the uses of light to relate interior to exterior space; the use of light as a material-this program looks at five centuries of light and shadow in Dutch art.