a. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247936466_Visual_Communication_Integrating_Media_Art_and_Science

pg 115-157

Questions/Guide

• I'd love to see notes from u about:
  • A drawing of how vision works... of how u understand it
  • which of the intelligences detailed in Ch6 (first part of PDF) resonate withu?
  • why do Williams and Newton about the education system?
  • and more generically:
    • out definitions for things you think are crucial, interesting
    • ut questions and thoughts about things u think are confusing
    • SKETCH out ur ideas.... Try out the methods explained by Crowe + Laseau in the VISUAL NOTE TAKING pdf.

b. davis and hunt excerpt

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328256100_Visual_Communication_Design_An_introduction_to_design_concepts_in_everyday_experience

3-19

Questions:

• What is experience? And why do the authors link experience to design?
• Can you explain what u think the authors mean by "the design of visual communication, therefore, creates conditions for experiences" ? What are the conditions, or rather, what are the facets that contribute to how u experience your environment and communication?
• How is story related to experience? And thus, related to design?
• KEY TERMS: - What are AFFORDANCES? What affordances have to do with 1) the form of a technology, 2) content, and 3) experiences?
• What is detonation? What is connotation? Why might a designer care about these concepts?

c. crowe & lasaue

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Visual+Notes+for+Architects+and+Designers%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781118129340

1-24

Questions:

• outline the authors' argument about visual notation
• What benefits do visual notes provide that differ from written notes? And in advocating for visual notes, what are the authors' suggesting about the comes from written language?
• What is visual literacy? How do they define it? What do you think about their 2 particular skills?
• Why are the authors referencing D.A. Dondis? What is Dondis' take on visual messages and how does this recap support the authors' arguments?
• KEY TERMS:
  • What is abstraction? And how does it differ from symbolism?
    • Do these make sense to u or confusing? Either way - can you provide an example?
  • What is the significance of "recording" in the visual note taking process? Why is recording an important process is design? What does the act of recording (and also observing) do to our perception? ... and to communication?