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van der Waarde, Karel – Visible Language, 2010
An area of visual communication that might be classified as a "design failure" is the visual presentation of information about "prescription-only medicines" for patients. This information is provided on packaging, leaflets, brochures, labels and websites. The practical issue is that there are problems in convincing patients to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Patients
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Buck-Coleman, Audra – Visible Language, 2010
Graphic design's messages can reach across streets and across the globe; they can bring together countries, communities and strangers for a common cause; they can also serve to divide otherwise amenable neighbors. Design students must fully understand this potential reach and thus the responsibility they have to create tolerant, informed messages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Cultural Pluralism
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Ohlgren, Thomas H. – Visible Language, 1972
Considers the ways in which the artist of one biblical narrative, the Old English Caedmonian Genesis,'' successfully created a consecutive series of visual episodes which correspond to the narrative sequence of the poetic text. (Author)
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Graphic Arts, Illustrations, Medieval Literature