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Graphic standards manual : guidelines for visual communication / by North Carolina State University.School of Humanities and Social Sciences.(CARDINAL)168349;
Subjects: Style manuals.; Printing; Printing; Graphic arts;
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The non-designer's presentation book : principles for effective presentation design / by Williams, Robin,1953-author.;
Robin Williams, teacher and designer, knows what it takes to give a good presentation. In this revised and updated book, Robin makes it easy for even first-time presenters to get past their fears of creating a presentation. She expands upon the four fundamental principles of good design and typography introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer's series and adds four more principles specific to achieving clear communication with slides. Let Robin guide you in her signature light-hearted style through the entire process of creating a presentation-from planning and organizing your ideas to designing effective, beautiful slides that won't put your audience to sleep. In this essential guide to presentation design, you'll learn: What makes a good presentation-or a bad one How to plan, organize, and outline your presentation Four principles for developing effective presentations Four principles for designing beautiful slides that communicate clearly Specific tips for using animation and transitions that aren't annoying A list of timeless presentation rules . . . that you should totally ignore
Subjects: Visual communication.; Presentation graphics software.; Graphic design.;
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How charts lie : getting smarter about visual information / by Cairo, Alberto,1974-author.(CARDINAL)813204;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index."A leading data visualization expert explores the negative--and positive--influences that charts have on our perception of truth. We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous--and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns-- or simply misinform us by being poorly designed, such as the confusing "eye of the storm" maps shown on TV every hurricane season. Many of us are ill equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie teaches us how to do just that"--
Subjects: Visual communication.; Information visualization.; Charts, diagrams, etc.;
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How to communicate like a pro / by Qubein, Nido R.,author.(DLC)n 83157706 ; Creative Services, Inc.(local)tlcaut7210202384700;
Become a master communicator -- Get people to pay attention to you -- Boost your audience-response rating -- Help people understand you -- Help people connect through stories -- Get through communication barriers -- Listen perceptively -- Target for maximum impact -- Target results -- Give an effective speech -- Put more power in your writing -- Communicate in today's world.
Subjects: Communication.; Public speaking.; Public speaking; Communication; Interpersonal communication.; Written communication.; Written communication; Interpersonal communication;
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Slide:ology : the art and science of creating great presentations / by Duarte, Nancy.(CARDINAL)558307;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.Creating a new slide ideology -- Creating ideas, not slides -- Creating diagrams -- Displaying data -- Thinking like a designer -- Arranging elements -- Using visual elements: background, color, and text -- Using visual elements: images -- Creating movement -- Governing with templates -- Interacting with slides -- Manifesto: the five theses of the power of a presentation.Presents practical approaches for developing an effective presentation, covering such topics as creating diagrams, displaying data, arranging elements, creating movement, and interacting with slides.
Subjects: Business presentations.; Presentation graphics software.; Visual communication.;
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Picturing Russia : explorations in visual culture / by Kivelson, Valerie A.(Valerie Ann)(CARDINAL)290399; Neuberger, Joan,1953-(CARDINAL)290398;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Subjects: Art.; Art and history.; Art, Russian.; Visual communication.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Infographica / by Toseland, Martin,author.(CARDINAL)426087; Toseland, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)428208;
Collects statistical data from around the globe on a variety of miscellaneous topics and presents this information in a series of infographics, from the average lifespan of people living on each continent to the bite strength of the world's most dangerous predators.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Visual communication.; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Information visualization.;
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100 diagrams that changed the world : from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation of the iPod / by Christianson, Scott.(CARDINAL)163678;
Chauvet cave drawings (c. 30,000 BC) -- Triple spiral (c. 3200 BC) -- Marshall Islands stick navigation charts (c. 2000-500 BC) -- Babylonian "Pythagoras theorem" (c. 1900-1700 BC) -- Phaistos disc (c. 1700 BC) -- Egyptian Book of the Dead (c. 1550-50 BC) -- Sheet music (c. 1400 BC) -- Battering ram (c. 865-860 BC) -- Babylonian map of the world (c. 600 BC) -- Classical orders of architecture (c. 600-100 BC) -- Acupuncture points (c. 305-204 BC) -- Elements of geometry, Euclid (c. 300 BC) -- Rosetta stone (196 BC) -- The Ptolemaic system, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 140-150) -- Ptolemy's World map, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 150) -- Porphyrian tree, Porphyry of Tyre (c. AD 300) -- Nazca lines (c. AD 400-650) -- Dunhuang star map (c. AD 649-684) -- Lunar eclipse, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (1019) -- Heraldry (1127) -- Compendium of the genealogy of Christ, Peter of Poitiers (c. 1230) -- Carta Pisana (chart of Pisa) (c. 1275-1300) -- Optics, Roger Bacon (c. 1267-69) -- Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1308-21) -- Windmill-powered "car"/submarine, Guido da Vigevano (1328) -- Astrarium, Giovanni de 'Dondi (1364) -- The Voynich manuscript (c. 1404-38) -- The castle of perseverance (c. 1405-25) -- Exploded-view diagram, Mariano Taccola (c. 1450) -- Aztec calendar (1479) -- Vitruvian man, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1487) -- Helicopter and flying machine, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1493-1505) -- Foetus in the womb, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1510) -- Triangulation, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1533) -- Astronomicum Caesareum, Petrus Apianus (1540) -- Human body, Andreas Vesalius (1543) -- Heliocentric universe, Nicolas Copernicus (1543) -- Camera obscura, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1544) -- The Four Books of Architecture, Andrea Palladio (1570) -- Flush toilet, John Harington (1596) -- Kepler's law of planetary motion, Johannes Kepler (1609) -- Telescope, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Moon drawings, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Movement of objects, René Descartes (1644) -- Pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens (1657) -- Micrographia, Robert Hooke (1665) -- Prism "crucial experiment", Isaac Newton (1666-72) -- Bacteria, Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1683) -- Steam engine, Thomas Newcomen (1708-12) -- Machine gun, James Puckle (1718) -- Color wheel, Moses Harris (1766) -- A new chart of history, Joseph Priestly (1769) -- Bifocals, Benjamin Franklin (1784) -- Bar chart, William Playfair (1786) -- Line graph, William Playfair (1786) -- Brooks slave ship, Thomas Clarkson (1788) -- Cotton gin, Eli Whitney (1794) -- Phrenology, Franz Joseph Gall (1796) -- Electrical circuit diagram, Alessandro Volta (1800) -- Steam locomotive, George Stephenson (1815) -- Clifton suspension bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1830) -- Evolutionary tree, Charles Darwin (1837) -- Morse code, Samuel Morse (1840) -- Dinosaur (Megalosaurus), Richard Owen (1854) -- Rose (or polar area) diagram, Florence Nightingale (1858) -- Graded sewing patterns, Ebenezer Butterick (1863) -- Pedal bicycle, Pierre Lallement (1866) -- Periodic table, Dmitri Mendeleev (1869) -- Weather map, Francis Galton (1875) -- Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (1876) -- Light bulb, Thomas Edison (1880) -- Venn diagrams, John Venn (1880) -- Emoticons, Puck Magazine (1881) -- Treasure Island map, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) -- Pictogram graphs, Michael George Mulhall (1884) -- Car, Karl Benz (1886) -- Right-hand rule, John Ambrose Fleming (c. 1890) -- Powered plane, Wright Brothers (1903) -- London underground map (1908) -- Spacetime diagrams, Hermann Minkowski (1908) -- Flow chart, Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1921) -- Id, ego, super-ego, Sigmund Freud (1921-23) -- Television, John Logie Baird (1926) -- Nazi propaganda map, Rupert von Schumacher (1934) -- London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall (1936) -- Cubism and abstract art, Alfred Barr (1936) -- V2 rocket, German Armed Forces (1942) -- Feynman diagrams, Richard Feynman (1949) -- DNA double helix, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Odile Crick (1953) -- Flat-pack furniture, Gillis Lundgren, IKEA (1956) -- Vostok 1, Sergei Korolev (1961) -- Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency (1962) -- ARPANET, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (1969) -- Intel 4004 CPU, Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Frederico Faggin, Philip Tai, and Wayne Pickette (1971) -- Pioneer plaque, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan (1972) -- Mobile phone, Martin Cooper/Motorola (1973) -- Apple Computer, Steve Jobs (1980) -- Chernobyl radioactive fallout map (1986) -- World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1989) -- iPod, Steve Jobs (2001).From primitive cave paintings to deciphering the DNA helix, this chronological guide describes the important sketches, plans, and drawings that had profound and dramatic effects on history and the way people viewed the world.
Subjects: Chronologies.; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Visual communication in science; Visual communication;
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Graphics for engineers: visualization, communication, and design / by Hoelscher, Randolph P.(Randolph Philip),1890-; Springer, Clifford H.(Clifford Harry),1896-; Dobrovolny, Jerry S.;
Subjects: Engineering graphics.;
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Using visual aids : a guide for effective presentations / by Raines, Claire.(CARDINAL)204852; Williamson, Linda.(CARDINAL)223754; Raines, Claire.Visual aids in business.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 84).
Subjects: Meetings; Communication in management.; Visual aids.;
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