Describes a studio project designed to help students (1) utilize the digital environment to organize typography and images that represent the socio-political context their solutions were required to identify; and (2) explore the empirical variables that help readers to access and contemplate the content presented by their text. (PA)

Utilizes a panel of graphic arts education experts to review suggested Food and Drug Administration label guidelines--if the participants thought that "graphic problems" existed in the guidelines, they were asked to make suggestions to indicate how food labels could be prepared more effectively, at no additional cost. (PA)

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their enormous print and negative library, as well as text and graphic material. It is composed of two photo databases as well as graphics, text, and audio databases. The features of this database are briefly described in…

This Instructional Resources continues our 2004 series on forms of "public art" that included Susan Goetz Zwirn's contribution on images of work in the 1930s (March 2004), Carol Argiro's exploration of public sculpture (July 2004), and Mary Jane Zander's work on WPA post office murals (September 2004). This Instructional Resources explores an art…

Almazan, a pioneering painter and graphic artist, played a major role in the development of Chicano art in San Antonio. He was admitted into the Men of Art Guild, the preeminent Texas art group, when he was nineteen years old.

The origin of this article is an investigation of an academic course, "Graphic Arts and Design for students of natural and social sciences." The article describes the benefits of attending the class for the science students, which were an increased ability to solve problems, new and different ways to observe the environment, greater self…

Information graphics or diagrams are two-dimensional maps of relationships that present information. Creators and interpreters of diagrams need to know what makes some diagrams more effective in communicating information. This paper suggests a theoretical framework for diagram classification to make this possible. This framework consists of two…

An interview discussing informational graphics in libraries. (PF)

Tells yearbook staffs how to write and edit copy, prepare captions and headlines, and make copy blocks. (RB)

Stresses the importance of identifying high school publications by the name of the school, the city, the state, or by providing information in the masthead. (RB)

Suggests that the kinds of graphics needed by the print media depend on the cues crucial to the intended meaning of the message. (RB)

Tells how one yearbook publications advisor educated himself, organized his staff, and established guidelines that lead to a product that each staff member felt was a personal achievement. (RB)

Tells journalism advisors and staffs how to prepare mimeographed school newspapers, emphasizing graphics, printing, and layout. (RB)

Describes the advantages of using the bulletin board as an additional means of communication through graphics. (RB)