Visual communication

  • The video tutorial on graphics

    A couple of days ago, I made the point that, although professionals today need to communicate visually in workplace documents, most amateur writers have little relevant experience. If you are working on online graphics, check out amCharts, a small Lithuanian company, which was featured in Smashing Magazine a few years back. The graphic above is a still version of a JavaScript sample. …

  • Pros show and tell

    Written language is visual. So the history of writing, like the Sumerian cuneiform shown here, is part of the history of visual communication.  To follow that history, check out The History of Visual Communication website created by Elif Ayiter, a professor at Sabanci University in Turkey. The “tension” between words and pictures is mostly a consequence of how…