A manifesto is a declaration of intent — often the intent to bring radical change to the world. Throughout history, many art movements have written manifestos, and it’s always a sign that things have gotten real.
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Category: Reading Responses
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Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. He looked at the power of mainstream media (advertising, TV, film, etc) to understand the representation of race, gender, class, ethnicity, and religion. We will read an excerpt from Chapter 1 “… Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response – Representation”
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“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 3 – Visual Rhetoric”
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Our next reading assignment is an introduction to semiotics. These topics directly relate to how we understand communication design from a theoretical perspective.
We will be reading Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That : A User’s Guide to Semiotics, Laurence King … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response – Semiotics”
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Our first reading consists of an introduction to the text Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, Armstrong, Helen, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Navigate to pages 6-7 to read “Why Theory? by Ellen Lupton.”
And we will also read a page from the … Continue Reading “Assignment: Reading Response – Why Theory?”
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