Os valores e a cultura dos designers fazem parte do processo projetual e podem ser considerados de extrema relevância, visto que a cultura do designer pode ser uma fonte de inovação e de criatividade no decorrer do processo projetual do design. Este trabalho aborda o papel das referências culturais do designer gráfico no seu processo de trabalho. Busca descrever como os designers gráficos atuantes no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, mais precisamente na cidade de Porto Alegre, percebem o efeito de suas atividades culturais e de seu ambiente cultural em seu repertório e na sua prática projetual. O estudo busca caracterizar a relação entre a cultura do designer e a prática de design gráfico, identificar a presença do repertório cultural no discurso dos designers gráficos e identificar os fatores que emergem como relevantes no discurso dos designers gráficos. Para isso foram realizadas entrevistas com seis designers gráficos atuantes em Porto Alegre. A análise das entrevistas sugere que, em todos os casos, o desenvolvimento profissional está relacionado com o repertório cultural, ficando claro o quanto esses designers reconhecem que sua atividade profissional é afetada por seu repertório e ambiente cultural. Foram identificados sete fatores que emergem como relevantes no discurso dos designers gráficos e que podem explicar suas trajetórias profissionais: formação orientada a uma profissão criativa desde a infância; busca por uma atividade criativa; influência das artes plásticas; conhecimento de outras culturas (viagens, história); aprendizagem por meio de troca com colegas experientes; ampliação constante do repertório (eventos culturais, cursos); e relacionamento com clientes. / Values and culture of designers are part of design process and can be considered extremely relevant, since a culture of designer can be a source of innovation and creativity during design process of design. This study approaches the role of cultural references of graphic designer in their work process. Search describe how graphic designers actants in Rio Grande do Sul state, more precisely in the city of Porto Alegre, perceived the effect of their cultural activities and their cultural environment in their repertoire and their design practice. This study aims to characterize the relationship between culture of design and graphic design practice, identify presence of cultural repertoire in graphic designers' discourse and identify factors that emerge as relevant in the discourse of graphic designers. For that interviews with six graphic designers actants in Porto Alegre. Analysis of interviews showed that, in all cases, the professional development is related with cultural repertoire, becoming clear how much these designers recognize that their professional activity is affected by your repertoire and cultural environment. Seven factors were identified that emerge as relevant in the graphic designers’ discourse and may explain their professional trajectories: formation oriented to creative profession since childhood; search for creative activity; influence of visual arts; knowledge of other cultures (travel, history); learning through exchanges with experienced colleagues; constantly expanding repertoire (cultural events, courses); and customer relationships.

Orientador: Wu-Shin Ting / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T01:38:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Brito_PauloHenriqueFischde_M.pdf: 792758 bytes, checksum: 867847d3294faf6a8f1bad6e62f82b13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Resumo: Este trabalho trata da problemática envolvida na colaboração entre pessoas mediada pelo computador. Esta área tem crescido bastante principalmente no que se refere ao aprendizado colaborativo. Há uma ênfase, nestes ambientes, na comunicação textual em preterimento do uso de linguagens visuais que existem em diversas áreas do conhecimento. Esta ênfase acontece para que os ambientes atuais possam ser usados em diversas áreas e isso acarreta em um empobrecimento na capacidade de comunicação suportada. Esta tese apresenta uma arquitetura que pode ser usada pelos ambientes de colaboração para que seja possível a integração de aplicações gráficas de colaboração às ferramentas de comunicação genéricas (por exemplo, um bate-papo). Estas aplicações gráficas suportariam alguma linguagem visual de um determinado contexto específico. Com esta integração de ferramentas de comunicação haveria um complemento das linguagens verbal e visual ocasionando uma melhoria na comunicação suportada por estes ambientes. Além disso, é mostrado um ambiente de aprendizado colaborativo, denominado CoLab, que aplica esta arquitetura e um experimento, para testar o CoLab e a arquitetura de integração, foi conduzido e analisado / Abstract: This work deals with problems involved in computer-mediated communication (CMC). This field has been growing in the context of collaborative learning. Most research efforts has gone into solving textual CMC problems in detriment of the visual communication ones. This is probably because current systems are intended to act in a broad range of fields. On the other side, such systems have poor support to convey information that is ubiquitously represented by visual symbols. Using both textual and visual communication together may allow us to do more cognitive work. Visual symbols are better for providing spatial relationships and details, where as texts are better for passing abstract concepts. An architecture that supports the integration of collaborative graphic applications into textual generic communication tools is proposed. The graphic application may support visual communication through graphic symbols of specific context. Based on the proposed architecture a collaborative learning system, called CoLab, was developed and an experiment was conducted and analyzed / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Este trabalho buscou fazer recortes a partir de pesquisas bibliográficas em dados secundários históricos para elaborar uma linha cronológica da ornamentação, deste a pré-história até a década de 1990. Para atingir o objetivo especifico, foi necessário fazer recortes na história mundial, nas comunicações visuais, nas vestimentas e na ornamentação para que fosse possível elaborar as interfaces de todos os dados obtidos, saber como cada tópico influenciou no emprego de materiais, técnicas e também o uso dos ornamentos por parte de cada individuo. Os ornamentos caracterizam mundialmente os diferentes grupos e culturas e este é um relevante fator de estudo que pode ser muito abrangente em seus mais diversos aspectos. Sendo assim, sabe-se que a vestimenta, mais tarde vista como moda, estabelece uma relação entre pessoa e objeto; os indivíduos consomem a vestimenta pela necessidade da utilização da indumentária, podendo-se atribuir a ela uma diferenciação visual social. Paralelamente à vestimenta, há os ornamentos, detectados na vida do homem desde os primórdios, que atravessaram toda a história da humanidade até a sua chegada aos tempos atuais, na condição de serem requisitos tão necessários tanto quanto a própria vestimenta / The present article aimed to make cuts from library research in historical secondary data in order to elaborate a chronological line in ornamentation, since pre-history to the late 1990s. To achieve the specific purpose, it was necessary to make cuts in world history, in visual communications, clothing and adornment in order to make it possible to elaborate the interfaces of all obtained data, knowing how each topic influenced the use of materials, techniques and also use of ornaments by each individual. The ornaments worldwide characterize the different groups and cultures and this is a significant study factor that can be very broad in its various aspects. Thus, it is known that the garment later seen as fashionable, establishes a relationship between the person and the object; the individuals consume garment by the need for the use of clothing, and it may be attributed to it a social visual differentiation. In parallel to garment, there are the ornaments, detected in human life from the very beginning that have gone through the entire history of humanity until their arrival in the present times, in a condition to be requirements as necessary as the garment itself

Com este projeto de pesquisa, que faz parte do Programa de Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação, na Área de Concentração III - Interfaces Sociais da Comunicação da Linha de Pesquisa Políticas e Estratégias de Comunicação, buscou-se identificar e analisar os conteúdos verbais e imagéticos de campanhas na área de educação em saúde, em especial, sobre o diabetes, presentes em eventos do Dia Mundial do Diabetes ou relacionados a este, nos anos de 2010 e 2011. Essas campanhas foram realizadas por instituições de saúde públicas e privadas da cidade de São Paulo com materiais patrocinados e/ou veiculados por empresas farmacêuticas e de alimentos que utilizaram o design para organizar as mensagens sobre prevenção de enfermidades e/ou adoção de comportamentos saudáveis. A análise dos conteúdos das peças impressas das campanhas teve por base as teorias de comunicação social e linguagem visual. / With this research project, that participates in the Master Program in Communication Sciences, in the III Area of Concentration - Social Interfaces of Communication from the Main Line of Research Policy and Strategies of Communication, we sought to identify and analyze the content of verbal and pictorial campaigns in the health education area, particularly about diabetes, present in the World Diabetes Day events or related to this, occurred in 2010 and 2011. These campaigns were carried out by public and private health institutions of the city of São Paulo with materials sponsored and/or distributed by pharmaceutical and food companies that used the design to organize the messages about disease prevention and/or adoption of healthy behaviors. The analysis of the contents of the printed pieces of the campaigns was based on theories of social communication and visual language.

Orientador: Susana Oliveira Dias / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:34:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luccas_TainaMascarenhasde_M.pdf: 5791821 bytes, checksum: 64067b10269fd69d22dee0b501d4f3c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Nuvens de pensamento que se encontram e dispersam... Será que vai chover? Potência que se faz em água. Pesquisa-inundada que deseja pensar a imagem fotográfica enquanto potência de vida - uma imagem-viva que prolifera intensidades distintas que movimentam nossos pensamentos e sensações em fluxos imprevisíveis, devires. Ventos que me levaram ao encontro de fotografias que querem representar o clima - as mudanças climáticas, desejo de aproximação com esses materiais para pensar as potências de vida nas/pelas/com/por essas imagens. Intensidades que se propagam desde dentro desses corpos-imagéticos cada vez mais presentes em nossas vidas e que criam formas de habitar o mundo. Imagens estas que aparecem na mídia e na divulgação científica - fotografias que, com frequência, dizem de um tempo que passou (o vivido) e também desejam afirmar um tempo futuro (querem fixar as nuvens?); discursos que investem na previsibilidade do tempo, no controle das forças da natureza, na conservação da vida. Imagens que carregam muitos clichês e tentativas de fixação de sentidos em torno das mudanças do clima. E como, então, procurar potências de vida, outras temporalidades nessas imagens cada vez mais encharcadas de clichês? Questão que movimentou o pensamento-escrita-pesquisa a se aventurar por entre fotografias clichês, mudanças e climas; estudos que passaram a integrar as atividades do projeto de extensão "Vida e tempo em proliferação: experimentações com as imagens das mudanças climáticas" (Faepex/Unicamp) - que trafegou pelas interfaces entre ciência, arte, filosofia, comunicação; com a criação de artefatos e contato com o público. Que vida e tempo pulsam dessas imagens? Pergunta que movimentava nossas pesquisas/experimentações a procurar possibilidades distintas de aproximação com as imagens do clima, intensidades que pudessem emergir desde dentro dos clichês, das tensões entre retenção e fluxo de significados; controle e descontrole; previsibilidade e imprevisibilidade, forças marcantes nas imagens e dizeres climáticos. Buscamos experimentar outros caminhos e possibilidades de encontro com o tema climático, outras políticas e poéticas imagéticas que pudessem proliferar fluxos imprevisíveis de pensamentos em devir / Abstract: Clouds of mind which meet and scatter... Is it going to rain? Floated research desires thinking about a photographic image while the power of life - alive image makes different intensities which move our thoughts and sensations of flows becoming unpredictably. Winds enlace me until photographs, wanting to present the atmosphere - climate changings, approach desire with these materials, thinking about the life power within through these images. Intensities scatter since the beginning of these image-bodies even more inside our lives, creating slims which inhabit the world. These images arise on the media screens and scientific communication - photographs that, frequently, tell about an old time which passed by (lived) besides they desire the destiny (do they want to be clouds?). Speeches increase time predictably, manage the strengths of the nature, controlling life. Images which carry a lot of clichés and sense fix temptation of signs according to climate changings. So how looking for life power, other time changings to these images each time more floated by clichés? It is a question of movement that turns on the writing thoughts research to adventure among photos clichés, changings and climate; studies that take part in the extension project activities "Life and time proliferating: experiences with climate image changings" (Faepex/Unicamp) -walking on the surfaces among science, art, philosophy, communication; with the creation of manufacture in touch with public. Which life and time pull these images? Question that moves our researches/experiences looking for different possibilities of approaching to the climate images, intensities which could emerge from inside the clichés, tensions between holding back and meaning flows; controlling and loosing control; predictable and unpredictable, remarkable strengths inside images and climate speeches. We are looking for experiencing other ways and possibilities of enlacement with the climate subject, other politics and poetic images that could proliferate flows and unpredictable becoming thoughts / Mestrado / Divulgação Científica e Cultural / Mestra em Divulgação Científica e Cultural

The phenomenon of nation branding has increased its popularity within scholars from different disciplines within the past decade. Moreover, the practice of nation branding has gained a significant role in countries’ foreign politics. However, the number of studies within the field of communication and media is lacking. The phenomenon of nation branding is usually researched from economic or political point of views. This thesis connects communication, media, marketing, and politics by examining nation branding as a tool of soft power. It aims to point out how desired meanings are constructed by using visual communication tools to create a favorable image for a country. The visual approach was chosen to be examined as it is more challenging to transfer messages through visual means than using spoken language. Two countries, Finland, and South Korea, were chosen as case studies due to their different nation branding strategies and international rankings. Their promotional videos were analyzed by using qualitative empirical descriptive method by utilizing tools provided by multimodal critical discourse analysis. The descriptive analytical method was chosen as the videos are meant as promotional materials which use over simplified narrative methods so that viewer could understand them easily. The concepts of nation, nation branding, discourse, ideology, soft power, public diplomacy, media, visual communication, and power were used as a theoretical framework. The study shows how discourse is constructed using visual representations as well as what kind of values can be transferred by using visual communication tools to influence on the foreign audience’s perceptions of the country.

This dissertation seeks to advance our understanding of how marketing principles can be used to improve the process of new product design. Specifically, it examines the potential of a specific cognitive process, visual mental imagery, as a tool to help designers maximize the appeal of new products in the eyes of their customers. A conceptual framework is presented that describes a process through which visual mental imagery might influence the customer appeal of a design output. This is followed by two experiments which test the hypotheses that flow from this model. The experiments manipulate both the type of visual imagery utilized, and the incorporation of the customer in the imagery invoked (content of the imagery), in order to examine their effects on the usefulness, originality, and customer appeal of the resulting design. Consistent with the proposed framework and its hypotheses, visualization of the customer, as part of the imagery process, proved to enhance design usefulness when this imagery was imagination-based, but not when it was memory-based. Furthermore, use of imagination-based imagery resulted in more original designs than pure memory-based imagery. Finally, and most importantly, the use of customer visualization in combination with imagination-based imagery led to designs that were significantly more appealing to the customer. An analysis of covariance subsequently revealed that this improvement in customer appeal was mediated both by the perceived usefulness of the design, and by its degree of originality. The dissertation concludes with the integration of the experimental findings, and a discussion of the potential of visual imagery as a tool in the new product design process. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

As a museum educator who embraces social education and reflects on the postmodern condition, I found working within a traditional museum context to present challenges. As a result, I conducted an action research project focusing on ways to improve my own practice and affect change based on my engagement with visual culture discourse and the docents I teach. Having chosen action research, I implemented various teaching approaches and collected data over the course of several months. These data collection methods included interviews, museum documents, observational notes, recorded teaching practice, and daily journal entries. Narrative analysis was then used to interpret the collected data, specifically focusing how participants, including myself, make sense out of our experiences and how we value them.

Instagram är en social medieplattform som är populär i dagens samhälle. Det är en plattform som påverkar många människor på olika sätt. Ett sätt är att skildra en "ideal kroppsbild" eftersom instagramanvändare försöker skildra sig själva på bästa möjliga sätt. Detta resulterar i höga standarder som de flesta inte kan uppfylla. Som ett motstånd mot detta skapades hashtaggen "Instagramvsreality". Hashtaggen skapades för att visa verkligheten bakom några av Instagram-inläggen som ibland är redigerade eller inte visar hela bilden. I den här studien undersökte vi om meddelandet bakom Instagram-inlägget med hashtaggen Instagramvsreality och Instavsreality kom fram genom den visuella kommunikationen och hur det påverkade respondenterna. / Instagram is a social media platform that is becoming a big part of today's society. It is a platform that affects a lot of people in different ways. Research shows that one way is by portraying an “ideal body image” since Instagram users try to portray themself in the best manner possible. This results in high standards that most people cannot fulfill. As resistance to this, a body positivity movement came to life and with this the hashtag “Instagramvsreality”. The hashtag was created to show the reality behind some of the Instagram posts which are at times edited or do not show the whole picture. In this study, we investigated if the message behind the Instagram post with the hashtag Instagramvsreality and Instavsreality was understood through the visual communication and how it affected the respondents. The results show that most of the responders understand both the message with the message behind the Instagram posts and the bigger message behind the hashtag. While they are not affected by the hashtags encouraging message.

This paper looks at how I as a jeweller can use my craft knowledge to raise awareness of environmental issues. In our society we are informed on a daily basis how elevated average temperatures, melting glaciers and forest fires affect and will affect our future, but also future generations’ living conditions on earth. Despite this, most of us just try to live our lives as usual. But all this information worries me, mostly for the future of my children, and I don’t know how to relate to it. I think about what inheritance I will leave behind. In this paper, I explore how I, in my role as a jewellry artist, can contribute to the discussion about the climate. To investigate this, I use theories of semiotics and visual communication as a frame for my work and I have chosen to dig where I stand and use work methods that I can find at home, but which I can also link to my profession as a jeweller. I have collected plastic  packaging that is the result of my family’s consumption. With this as a starting point, I have created plastic stones that leads my thoughts to future fossils and the Anthropocene era. My main tool has been the iron, with which I have achieved heat and a certain pressure to mimic the conditions under which minerals in nature are created. The plastic stones were made into brooches and the work has finally resulted in pictures where my children wear the brooches I have made of our common waste. Both the brooches and the images are linked to the theoretical framework of the paper.