Visual Vestiges : Time, Rhetoric, and Information Design

State University of New York Press

Visual VestigesTime, Rhetoric, and Information Design\nAuthor(s): Charles Kostelnick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855805963, 979-8855805963\nSynopsis\nVisual Vestiges explains how information design evolved over the centuries to make practical information clear, credible, and emotionally engaging.\n\nIn Visual Vestiges Charles Kostelnick analyzes the role of the past in understanding, studying, deploying, and teaching visual language in business, technical, and professional communication. He explores how information designstext, pictures, icons, charts, and graphsevolved to develop their rhetorical power and the many ways in which their vestigial forms permeate contemporary design. To explain these temporal dynamics, he examines the forces that underpin them: cultural shifts in aesthetics, taste, and values; social changes that redefine how we relate to one another rhetorical.