Prof. Jenna Spevack | COMD3504_D061 | FALL 2023 | Thurs 2:30pm
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Racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes have a long history in advertising media, marketing, and visual communications.
Select a historical 19th or 20th-century print or TV advertisement that uses obvious and/or documented racial, ethnic, or gender stereotypes to … Continue Reading “Assignment: Research Essay 2”
You’re invited to a virtual panel discussion featuring some of the brightest voices from Vol. 18 of the college’s all-digital journal of outstanding student writing, City Tech Writer!
Student writers Jaroslav Sykora, Judley Leriche, Alexis … Continue Reading “Register: City Tech Writer Student Panel”
“Rhetoric is the ‘technique of using the means of expression to persuade’. The hallmark of all rhetoric is that it involves at least two levels of language, the primary or denoted (non-coded) and the figurative or connoted (coded).”
Aesthetics of Photography
You will … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response 7”
Our next reading assignment is an introduction to semiotics and models of communication. These two topics directly relate to how we understand communication design from a theoretical perspective.
… Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response 6”…what is semiotics, and why is it important? Semiotics is defined as the theory of signs.
As we start to wrap up the “groundwork” of design theory where revolutionary ideas evolved into mainstream modernism and corporate commercial design, let’s take moment to consider that in the history of design, not every story gets told. Why?
You will be reading and … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response 5”
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