“You’ve heard the stories about how chance, an accident or a mistake led to valuable inventions — penicillin, Velcro and Post-It Notes are just a few. But you don’t have to rely on fate to provide inspiration. You can create conditions that spark new ideas any time by using creativity techniques such as the novel prompt.”
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“So many talented book designers get so little recognition. To do our small part to rectify that, DG Strong and Karen Templer — joined by Mignon Khargie as of 09/25/02 — will be singing the praises of some stand-out covers and the designers who designed them, more or less weekly.”
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“News delivery in this country is increasingly comprised of carefully crafted displays of visual information. As consumers of information, however, most of us have never been taught to critically read or decode images and other graphic displays of information in the same ways that we have been taught to analyze verbal communication. We are taught reading comprehension and writing skills throughout most of our educational experience, but not visual language comprehension.”
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“I am a firm believer in the hands-on, build it yourself approach to life — I often build my own cameras… I teach photography in the Visual Arts Department at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA…”
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“Can 300 million people possibly be wrong? Especially if they happen to be sophisticated, computer-savvy folks who confidently walk into a room with their LCD projector and bells-and-whistle-laden PowerPoint presentation? Well, perhaps, at least according to Julia Keller, cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune who asks if PowerPoint is actually changing the way we think.”
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“News delivery in this country is increasingly comprised of carefully crafted displays of visual information. As consumers of information, however, most of us have never been taught to critically read or decode images and other graphic displays of information in the same ways that we have been taught to analyze verbal communication. We are taught reading comprehension and writing skills throughout most of our educational experience, but not visual language comprehension.”
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