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Visual Communication – A Designer’S Guide To Reaching Target Audiences, Timothy Lerch

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Visual communication is the cornerstone of graphic design. All graphic design projects communicate a visual message. As with all forms of communication, visual communication is a two-way street. For a message to be effective, a designer must understand how to reach their audience. Scholarly design programs focus primarily on visual cues, while marketing programs focus on in-depth audience analysis and consumer behavior. This creates a problem for designers as they complete their degree program and enter the job market, particularly if they intend to seek freelance work. This guide is innovative because it presents components of visual communication from perspectives …

Communication Risk And Strategy In Temporary Organizations, Shelley R. Mcivor

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Communication is a critical and emerging metric for successful outcomes in the high-stakes field of project management. Professional management societies have quantified financial losses caused by ineffective communication. Consulting project management exemplifies a maximum communication risk environment - misunderstanding threatens project finances, strict deadlines, and technical benchmarks - exacerbated by the complexity of a temporary organization structure.

The context of work in a temporary organization adds layers of ambiguity to project communications - an ill-structured domain in technical communication terms. Formal study of communication in temporary organizations is relatively new. Recent studies are derived from engineering and business management perspectives. …

Come Closer, Eli Marco Hall

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This Culminating Project describes the design process from many different perspectives. It includes the designing of a book of poetry enabling me to apply design concepts.

Working as a graphic designer in the early twenty first century has provided opportunities to witness the effect that technology has had on the industry. Through the ongoing research, the change in roles of the modern graphic designer is established. Also during this time, print and digital media aggressively work toward a merger. When choosing to do a book for the Culminating Project, it was taken into consideration what the digital and print world …

Music, The Master Communicator, Patricia Jean Lee

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Music has been a universal language through time. It communicates the very essence of life, reflecting the heart, the soul and the mind of man. This study, based on research, testing and observation , seeks to establish that music is capable of communicating and educating; that music is not only relevant as an art form for the purpose of enjoyment and entertainment, but that music is a practical and acceptable means of expression and communication. To accomplish this goal , the paper discusses the history of communication, focusing on various types of communication to establish common elements, laying the foundation …