Captures the untold stories of women across time who used graphic design to earn a living while changing the world. Centers diverse women across backgrounds whose work has shaped, shifted, and formed graphic design as we know it today.
Gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of communication design and branding, with a special emphasis of interdisciplinary approaches showing how to combine knowledge in those fields to improve businesses in a digital, global world.
The right images capture attention, pique curiosity, and inspire viewers to stick around long enough to read any accompanying text. Explains image use in any media in practical terms for writers, scholars, and other professionals. Offers a flexible set of principles and best practices for selecting images that work--and using them in the most persuasive way. The result is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to learn how to work more successfully with images and words.
Considering the social, spatial, and temporal contexts of visual language, this text informs and inspires students, educators, and professionals looking to engage more deeply with the letterforms they use and see.
An introduction to the fundamentals of graphic design and the Adobe Creative Cloud applications used to put these concepts into practice.
Explores the increasing altruistic impulse of the design community to address some of the world's most difficult problems including social, political, environmental, and global health causes at the local, national, and global scale. For the novice information designer aiming to create compelling human-centered information narratives which make a difference in our world.
One of the leading graphic designers of recent times shows how a judicious use of humor can make infographics more understandable. Outlines nine clear ways to make graphics more understandable, explores the importance of the audience, shows you how to make information come alive during presentations through live-action 'performance' graphics, discusses why joy and smiling are good for you, and shows you how not to overdo it.
Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual., this book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them.
Practical guides cover everything from starting out, to wage gaps, coming out at work, cover letters, mentoring, and more. Opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, anti-racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking.
Addresses how to use the different principles of ergonomics in visual communication in a storytelling format. Focuses on applying the principles of ergonomics in different facets of communication design: icons, pictograms, and symbols, product labeling, wayfinding, and map design.