5. Document Design and Visual Rhetoric
Tuesday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of Chapters 11
- Lecture on typography & visual layout.
- Discussion of Berleant article
- Workshop on Word stylesheets and other formatting features.
- Filling out free time schedule for project partnerships.
Thursday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of Chapter 12
- Information Design
- Visual Rhetoric - Edward Tufte:
- Minard's graph of Napoleon's Russian Campaign
- John Snow's cholera map
- Critique of PowerPoint thinking and NASA Columbia disaster.
- Colin Powell's UN Presentation and Tufte's criticism
- Complete tutorial quiz for Chapter 12