Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

by Charles Kostelnick

Book Overview

This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers--in short, "humanizing" it.

Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication, their uses in this context have received little systematic analysis. Drawing on rhetorical theory, art history, design studies, and historical and contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113807151X
• ISBN13: 9781138071513
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"