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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"poster"”.
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Poster design : an examination of history, theory, practice and potential
Posters are public inscriptions with strong roots in the development of graphic technology. They play an integral role in the development of graphic design. Current ideas about poster design are discussed to establish why and how recent technological possibilities may change our concept of the …
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Poster children of public health: Visualizing HIV campaigns in Brazil, 1990-2018
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
My research investigates film advertising and poster designs produced in Germany during the Weimar Republic as significant cultural artifacts revealing the intersections between consumerism and aesthetics, popular entertainment and fine art. The intent of my dissertation is two-fold. On the one …
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Street graphics : thirty-one silkscreen prints, based on South African iconography, with reference to certain characteristics of the street poster
… elements of the fine print and the street poster. The screen-prints have been mounted on board and presented in a box, accompanied by an illustrated dissertation. During the production of the printer I displayed a number of individual screen-prints, and later complete series, at various …
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War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
… (CPI) sponsored a national culture of war in posters, speeches, and films. Against this war-soaked cultural backdrop, the sheet music industry echoed the pervasive messages of the CPI, often using images of women to appeal to the American people. Connections between sheet music and CPI poster …
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Attitudes and behaviours of user groups on Cannock Chase area of outstanding natural beauty
… Content analysis of existing AONB intervention posters and leaflets were used to develop an image based poster intervention. Intervention was emailed to participants with an initial questionnaire (n=234). Over a six month longitudinal study, participants repeated questionnaire completion at …
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The effects of subliminal weapons effect on aggressive behavior in college level students
… weapons effect conditioned consisted of a poster of "Scarface" holding a gun pointed toward the subject on the blackboard (the poster had a sign asking that it not be removed by a professor). The controlled condition had no stimuli on the blackboard. The subjects then completed a survey …
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Voice by Design: Experiments in Redistributing Media
… successful they were. The experiments include a poster campaign specific to Richmond and a project dealing with educating people about guerrilla media techniques.
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What Mean Do You Mean?
… paper coincides with my project where I made a poster titled "What Mean Do You Mean?" and on the poster I included the geometric representation of all of the different means on a half circle and also real life examples. My goal was to make it more apparent when to use which mean when finding the …
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A Clinical Nurse Leader Initiative: Promoting Mobility Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents
… to mobility activities through the adaption of poster-guided exercise par course. The interventions resulted to an increase in the number of residents participating in mobility/exercise activities from 76% (n=34) to 84% (n=37) of the unit population. Nursing plays a major role in patient …
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A cross-cultural design pattern: Chinese modern design
… and earn awards in various international poster competitions, shaping a new visual frontier in Chinese graphic design. These successes are based on their special cross-cultural design principle, which combines Chinese traditional culture with the imported Western modern design theory. In …
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Breaking my silence as a 'trained' dancer in post-apartheid South Africa
… at the University of Cape Town, I created a poster-painting with a fellow #FeesMustFall artist-activist. This poster-painting, entitled, Amputation, was introduced at UCT School of Dance' Confluences 9: Deciphering decolonisation in Dance Pedagogy in the 21st Century in Cape Town, South …
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A digital library component assembly environment
… and computer scientists, including their poster child, Internet developers. Until recently, these two communities had very little interaction. Even now, it is not uncommon to find librarians who know little of digitisation or computer scientists who are unfamiliar with the tools of …
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An Investigation of the Relationship between Popular Music and Analytic Cubist Paintings in Prewar Paris
… song lyrics, music iconography and its connected poster advertising as each relates to the Analytic Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso. During the last years of the nineteenth century, the world of fine art came into close contact with the realm of popular entertainment, in particular …
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Novel interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in the workplace.
… study comprised 3 studies. Study 1 tested a poster intervention in 9 workplace canteens; study 2 tested novel health promotion posters on university students; study 3 tested the feasibility of a health promotion game. Methods and results- Study 1- FV sales data were collected from 9 workplace …
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Investigating the Effects of Nudges for Facilitating the Use of Trigger Warnings and Content Warnings
… trigger past traumatic memories in viewers when posters post sensitive content. Strict content moderation and blocking/reporting features do not work when triggers are nuanced and the posts may not violate site guidelines. Viewer-side interventions exist to help filter and hide certain content …
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Women as Subject and Audience in World War II Venereal Disease Posters
… these educational measures was the creation of posters to "remind" soldiers of the threat and repercussions of contracting a venereal disease. In the United States, World War II-era venereal disease posters depicting women were created for an overwhelmingly male, military audience. These posters …
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ONLINE MISINFORMATION AND FACT-CHECKING
… timeliness, types of fact-checkers, and poster reputation) to sway user reactions. Hence, I design three essays aiming to understand the factors that affect the fact-checking effectiveness. The first essay examines the effectiveness of fact-checking by using a multi-method study. The …
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