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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Graphic Communication"”.
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Use of Digital Technologies in Graphic Communication Education
… technologies in secondary and post-secondary graphic communication education. Specifically it investigated: 1) the extent to which graphic communication educators utilized digital technologies in conjunction with instruction; 2) how selected factors affected graphic communication teachers' …
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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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Redesigning Arabic Learning Books, An exploration of the role of graphic communication and typography as visual pedagogic tools in Arabic-Latin bilingual design
… involving experts in the fields of graphic communication, learning and typeface design. The study offers solutions to some of the problems that arise in the course of designing language-learning books by reviewing selected English learning and information design books and methods of …
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Tailoring visual communication of cardiovascular disease risk to diverse populations: supporting informed decision-making in primary care
… prevention. However, clinical tools use varied graphic formats with little consistency, and evidence on which visual formats best support comprehension and decision-making remain inconclusive due to substantial heterogeneity in study designs and outcome measures. Aim: This thesis aims to advance …
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Cartographic GIS standards adopted by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry : a case study
… Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) acquired a Geographic Information System (GIS) in 1987. The purpose of acquiring such a system was to aid the department in implementing their water resource management strategy of that time. On acquiring this system it was well recognised that the GIS would need …
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Graduate and Employer Perceptions Regarding Job Preparedness Skills of Design Technology Graduates
… areas: (a) general work habits and skills, (b) communication skills, (c) technical skills, (d) graphic communication skills, and (e) project management skills. </p><p>This study was conducted as evaluation research and implemented an internal formative evaluation conducted through the …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s criteria, as exemplars of Modernist cultural production in the age of mechanical reproduction. The emergence of these images, within the …
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The effect of graphic format, age, and gender on the interpretation of quantitative data
… numerical data when presented in four different graphic formats to different age groups and sexes. Fifth and sixth grade students (N=129) and eleventh and twelfth grade students (N=129) were assigned to four treatment groups. Each group viewed a different treatment slide with the same data …
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UHF RFID Antenna Impedance Matching Techniques
… Antennas were fabricated in Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department by silk-screening silver conductive ink onto DuPont Melinix Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic. Impedance simulations are compared to fabricated antenna impedance measurements and range testing results.</p>
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There is no Authority but Yourself: Political Autonomy, Collective Art Practice, Crass and Anarcho-Punk Visual Conventions in the work of Gee Vaucher
… during the 1970s and its influence on punk graphics and contemporary protest and street art, and further investigates how political and creative autonomy has been integral to Vaucher’s practice. This is facilitated through an exploration of anarchistic, countercultural and subcultural …
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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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Defining Acceptable Colour Tolerances for Identity Branding in Natural Viewing Conditions
Graphic arts provide the channel for the reproduction of most brand communications. The reproduction tolerances in the graphic arts industry are based on standards that aim to produce visually acceptable outcomes. To communicate with their target audience brands, use a set of visual cues that may …
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Negotiated dramaturgy - industrial theatre as communication in the organisation
… Theatre as an effective form of corporate communication against the backdrop of South Africa's unique situation that distinguishes it from other countries in the world. As the post-apartheid South African society is concerned with development and transformation of its workforce, …
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A Practice-led Study of Design Principles for Screen Typography — with reference to the teachings of Emil Ruder
This research proposes that traditional typographic knowledge does not sufficiently address the design aspects specific to screen typography such as 3D space, motion, time, sound and interactivity, and that traditional design principles require adaptation and expansion for screen. This …
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Blissymbolics as an Augmentative Communication Tool for Adults with Expressive Aphasia
… to determine whether Blissymbolics - a visual-graphic communication system based on meaning rather than phonetics - could be used as a means of communication re-training with adults having expressive aphasia. This study investigated the performance of those individuals who had plateaued in …
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Graphic Politics: A visual history of activism and resistance in the Arab world from the middle to late twentieth century
… 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 the Second World War until the early 1980s. The research provides an …
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Lost in transcription: Enhancing the typographic description of prosody in written discourse through dynamic typography
… study is applied research within the field of graphic design. Its focus is the intersection between new media/experimental typographic practice, speech visualisation and oral history. This research emerged from the practice-based investigation of a problematic situation identified within the …
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Identity through Fashion in Virtual Environments
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the formation of identity through dress in virtual environments, and to establish connections between identity, fashion, and virtual reality by means of language and semiology. The notion of identity through fashion in virtual environments is examined, with …
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Creating Change: A case study of transformation, from ‘making greener things’ towards ‘design for transitions’
… case study of transition in an Australian communication and interaction design practice. It documents a transformation from ‘making greener things’ to ‘design for transitions’ through an analytic auto-ethnographic study that discusses the personal, political and professional dimensions of …
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