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Academic History

Journal: The Poster

“The poster-maker, the pamphleteer and the tagger aim to sway the popular heart and mind through visual public interventions. As new technologies rise, turning the public sphere into a transparent, ubiquitous communications medium and a global marketplace, is the privileged status of the poster doomed or are we seeing it transformed as part of a new wave of visual rhetoric? When the environment starts to become responsive to our very presence and aware of our individual nature what is the role of the ‘traditional poster’ delivering a classical rhetorical message? This peer-reviewed journal aims to lead the debate.

The Poster stands as a vehicle for the ideas of media theorists; scholars of Cultural Studies and Cultural Materialism; for social psychologists of visual communication, for architects and designers of wayfinding schemes; for philosophers of Aesthetics and Politics, Society and Linguistics; for social scientists, anthropologists and ethnographers; for political campaigners and artist activists; for communications researchers and visual communications practitioners.”

I’ve just been asked to be Associate Editor/Peer Reviewer on this journal – apparently they contacted me before, but I never received the email! Visit the journal site.

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Digital Reviewer

Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer Magazine“Defining the Internet Through Beautiful Design”

Less focused on the coding, and more on design, and how that impacts upon site usability. Magazine has a great website itself, links to lots of great information.

http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/

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Digital

Visual Image Course (1999-2002)

I decided to make a basic site available to the students on the Visual Image Course that I teach at King Alfred’s College, Winchester.

  • The site was to cover internet resources, a more general bibliography, duplicate the material available in a handout, and provide example exam answers for those who rarely decided to attend revision sessions!
  • The site is quite basic (but fast downloading), and has not been updated since I last ran the course…. as a historian it’s great to see the full development of my web skills starting with this early design!
  • I am debating absorbing the material into my ww2poster website, providing links to interesting information, and examples of how exam gobbets can be answered.