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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Communication design"”.
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The Logic of Corporate Communication Design
The development of programmatic corporate communications in Britain is attributable to a cluster of post-war designers who used graphics to furnish groups of artefacts with a ‘family likeness’. As their commissions progressed from the odd artefact to the all embracing corporate policy, they formed …
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Graphic communication design practice for sustainable social advocacy in Pakistan: Co-developing contextually responsive communication design (GCD) methodologies in culturally diverse contexts
Communication design, as a significant tool for sustainable social advocacy, is still under-explored both academically and within creative practices worldwide. In a developing country like Pakistan, the role of social advocacy as an effective tool for social change is ambiguous. This practice-led …
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Spaces that encourage Communication: Design for a Public Library
… In this thesis, I am exploring how to design spaces which can encourage communication between people. According to Jan Gehl's book, Cities for People, watching, listening and experiencing others is the beginning of social communication. After studying precedents, I summarized basic …
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Walking into Mindfulness: Using Communication Design to Connect Us to the Present
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Experiential Graphic Sonification for Visual and Auditory Communication Design and Musical Expression
… dissertation explains two sonification platforms designed for image-sound association study and art, and the study results. A platform for user study was developed first and an artistic audiovisual platform was derived based on it. First, the five image-sound association studies were conducted to …
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Resource allocation and secure communication design in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer systems
… of this emerging technology in various wireless communication scenarios. First, this thesis examines the application of SWIPT to a multi-user cooperative network in which the amplify-and-forward (AF) relay protocol is employed at the multi-antenna relay. A power splitting (PS) receiver …
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Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies
… Peacebuilding and reconciliation are affected by communication within and amongst different groups. Nonetheless, the potential for communication design to contribute towards social integration remains unexplored. This practice-led communication design research focuses on 18 to 30 year old youth in …
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The Assistive Research and Ideation Engine: The Application of Effective Communication Design to Enhance the Process of Online Research
… content, these platforms are not specifically designed to facilitate the research process. Moreover, performing persistent and targeted online research via a search engine poses many challenges. By designing a new online platform that manages and facilitates research functions, the individual …
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An investigation of how design managers in organisations in Bahrain manage and evaluate visual communication design for strategic advantage
The role of visual communication design continues to increase in importance around the world. In Bahrain, organisations are increasingly considering visual communication design as a means of accomplishing organisational goals. The research aims to understand the process by which design managers in …
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The 'feeling of what happens' in fourth year : exploring the emotive dimensions of learning in a communication design programme
… my aspirations for the education of fourth year design graduates are those that tend toward transformational learning, critical learning and lifelong learning. As such, I undertook this research in an attempt to understand the kind of learning environment that would best support creativity, and …
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Being an Ally: Communication Design's Role in Improving the Health Information Seeking Experience in People with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
… and format are informed by human-centered design methods. The primary goals of the website are to help people test suspicions of having PCOS, thoroughly explain PCOS while also giving more specific information, improve the search for PCOS specialists, and provide personalized information …
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Finding my woof by tweaking the warp : a personal account of an attempt to better understand learning in a Communication Design course
In this dissertation I set out to research my Design teaching practice from the perspective of enactivism, a term coined by two Chilean theoretical biologists, Humberto Maturana and the late Francisco Varela. Enactivism as a discourse, has its origins in philosophical hermeneutics and means that …
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Design for Communication: a collaborative practice to amplify qualities of sustainability
The role of communication design in social innovation for sustainability is the central subject of this thesis. This significant yet under-explored area is the focus of study through practice-led design research. Two current paradigms underpin this study. First, the definition of communication …
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Graphic Politics: A visual history of activism and resistance in the Arab world from the middle to late twentieth century
… study is situated in the broader context of design for social and political change, exploring the overlap between visual communication design and political engagement in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (the Arab world), with a specific focus on revolutionary uprisings from the end of …
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Institutional Global Maternal Nutrition Communication: Unblackboxing Rhetorical Power Dynamics in Transnational Spaces
… and medicine (RHM), technical and professional communication (TPC), and transnational institutional communication, my study aimed to explore the transnational issues of negotiation and power and (mis)articulations within the realm of global maternal nutrition (MN) communication design. …
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Adventurestorming: Conducting Collaborative Ideation Utilizing Creative Play
Members of the communication design industry are playing larger roles than they have before. Methods used by communication designers are being implemented in businesses to shape research practices and direct projects that impact larger sections of the world’s population. Most often, larger projects …
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Pedal off the Metal: An Investigation into Global Design and the Politics of Consumption
… in this thesis is an investigation into global design and the politics of consumption. The aim of the research is to provide a survey of seventy-nine key global design events held in 2014 and present the results of an empirical study of the key components witnessed in the staging of a global …
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Communication Efficiency: Superposition Strategies and Early Decoding
Wireless communication is increasingly used in applications ranging from industrial control to large-scale battery-powered IoT networks. These systems impose stringent requirements on latency, reliability, and energy consumption that challenge conventional communication design. This work …
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Online studios and digital literacy skills among undergraduate students: An Activity Theory Perspective
… of its usefulness in specialised domains such as design and technology fields. Research on the implementation of online education in design and technology fields is scant and yields inconclusive results, particularly concerning the pedagogical methods and the practicality of online instruction. As …
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