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Art for animals : visual culture and animal advocacy, 1870-1914
Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public's understanding of what it means to be \"kind,\" \"cruel,\" and \"inhumane\" toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
Following in the footsteps of earlier-formed organizations like the RSPCA and ASPCA, animal advocacy groups such as the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection made significant use of visual art in literature and campaign materials. But, enabled by new and improved technologies and techniques, they took the imagery much further than their predecessors did, turning toward vivid, pointed, and at times graphic depictions of human-animal interactions. Keri Cronin explains why the activist community embraced this approach, details how the use of such tools played a critical role in educational and reform movements in the United States, Canada, and England, and traces their impact in public and private spaces. Far from being peripheral illustrations of points articulated in written texts or argued in impassioned speeches, these photographs, prints, paintings, exhibitions, \"magic lantern\" slides, and films were key components of animal advocacy at the time, both educating the general public and creating a sense of shared identity among the reformers.
Uniquely focused on imagery from the early days of the animal rights movement and filled with striking visuals, Art for Animals sheds new light on the history and development of modern animal advocacy.
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Visual collaboration : a powerful toolkit for improving meetings, projects, and processes
\"Drawing and sketching ideas in groups is a smarter way of thinking, communicating, and working. The core method of the book, FIVE DESIGNLOOPS, gives leaders simple drawing tools, techniques and examples of visual collaboration, that can be implemented, in any context, including meetings, strategy sessions, project planning, innovating, business plans, etc. For example, draw your strategy and hang it in the lunch room or next to the coffee machine. A good drawing is a catalyst for good dialog. It can drive engagement and ownership. Visual Collaboration offers business leaders, entrepreneurs, facilitators, designers and change agents a method and tools to: develop visual languages for any context visualize any process and project formulate engaging questions develop templates for any situation, presentation or important conversation mapping skills and setting improvement targets Since many people haven't done any drawing since they were children, the authors have developed a simple and practical method by which ANYONE will be able to draw almost anything. We need to be agile, robust, and sustainable- but what exactly does it look like when we are? Can you draw it? Drawing forces us to be specific. When we draw together, we learn together, and with a world in constant change, our ability to learn together is an absolute necessity for success. Over 300,000 have seen their video (Bigger Picture's Guide to Graphic Facilitation). Author videos are seen by 5,000 new viewers every month. Speaking engagements 3 to 7 times a month for audiences of between 20 and 1,200 attendees, reaching over 10,000 attendees a year. The book will be a core part of our course package. Our business model is based on partnerships with large organizations who wish to change the way they work. Our clients, such as Maersk, Novo Nordisk, LEGO and Schindler Group implement projects, processes and communities of practice, with the book as an integral part, resulting in stable growth of users and readers\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Semiotics of Emoji
Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a compensatory universal language. The Semiotics of Emoji looks at what is officially the world's fastest-growing form of communication. Emoji, the colourful symbols and glyphs that represent everything from frowning disapproval to red-faced shame, are fast becoming embedded into digital communication. Controlled by a centralized body and regulated across the web, emoji seems to be a language: but is it? The rapid adoption of emoji in such a short span of time makes it a rich study in exploring the functions of language. Professor Marcel Danesi, an internationally-known expert in semiotics, branding and communication, answers the pertinent questions. Are emoji making us dumber? Can they ultimately replace language? Will people grow up emoji literate as well as digitally native? Can there be such a thing as a Universal Visual Language? Read this book for the answers.
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Visual communication : understanding images in media culture
A theoretical and empirical toolkit for analysing and understanding media and mediated images - from branding and PR, to tweets and selfies. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to your own work.
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Information visualization : perception for design
Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data? When we use software, access a website, or view business or scientific graphics, our understanding is greatly enhanced or impeded by the way the information is presented. This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts. Complete update of the recognized source in industry, research, and academic for applicable guidance on information visualizing. Includes the latest research and state of the art information on multimedia presentation. More than 160 explicit design guidelines based on vision science. A new final chapter that explains the process of visual thinking and how visualizations help us to think about problems. Packed with over 400 informative full color illustrations, which are key to understanding of the subject.
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Images from paradise : the visual communication of the European Union's federalist utopia
Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the \"art of European unification.\" The official visual narratives of the European Union constitute the main object of inquiry – the iconography of the new series of euro banknotes and the videos through which the supranational elite seek to generate \"collective effervescence,\" allow for a European carnival to take place, and prompt citizens to pledge allegiance to the sacred dogma of the \"ever closer union,\" thereby strengthening the mythical sources of the organization's legitimacy. The author seeks to illustrate how and why the federalist utopia turned into a political soteriology after the outbreak of the 2008 crisis.
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The Medieval Salento
Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities.The Medieval Salentoallows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.
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