User-Centred Graphic Design: Mass Communication And Social Change - Softcover

Frascara, Jorge; Meurer, Bernd; Van Toorn, Jan; Winkler, Dietmar

9780748406722: User-Centred Graphic Design: Mass Communication And Social Change

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748406727 ISBN 13: 9780748406722

Publisher: CRC Press, 1997

This text presents the important contribution that visual communication design can make to society, beyond its usual commercial applications. It identifies successful socially orientated projects, demonstrating the human and economic benefits that can be achieved through good communication design. The book also discusses a user-centred approach to Design, Including Notions Of Social Marketing, Design Methods And different information-gathering techniques.; The book closes with a discussion of a new professional profile for the graphic designer which reflects the complex cultural, psychological and often political issues that in turn affect, construct and contextualize our daily communications.

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About the Author:

Jorge Frascara is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

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