Archive for October, 2007



Visual communication shortcomings

Published on October 24, 2007

I found the experience of designing the graduate presentations (referenced in the previous post) a real challenge for my thesis. Aside from the visual literacies valued by the audience there was also the very real issue of trying to reconcile the need to simplify the content at the same time as acknowledge the complexity of [...]


Challenge of different visual literacies

Published on October 21, 2007

Tim has always made the point that an anthropologist may have a keen, developed visual literacy, but that it would be very different to that of a photographer. What has become increasingly pronounced is the specific visual literacies amongst art and design fields; just how different a photographer is to an architect to a communication [...]