Blog Post 1: Topic Interests - On Visual Encyclopedias
Recently, I glanced at a scholarly article concerning the visual rhetoric of design principles. Although I don't recall the title off the top of my head, I've always been fascinated by the incorporation into written and textual works (especially for pedagogical purposes), which has led me to an interest in the rhetoric of visual encyclopedias and their contents. As a kid, visual encyclopedias helped sate my artistic side by giving me all sorts of cool illustrations and diagrams to pour over, which were often labelled and annotated with all sorts of helpful information that pointed to specific items or parts of the images in question (though I either couldn't read or simply glossed over the main paragraphs and texts). Fast-forward to my twenties, and I'm still fond of this, yet have also paired it off with not just noticing the illustrations and diagrams on their own, but also the rhetorical and technical-communication dimensions that they're conveying. Potential are...