just some slides while I talk through the syllabus

1. January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

6. TODAY
1) Icebreaker
2) Basics
3) What’s coming up

7. Icebreaker
To start today, I want you to complete what is likely to
be a familiar sort of icebreaker activity. You will pair
up with someone you don’t already know, and over
the course of a few minutes you will interview that
person.
The info you need to get is on the next slide.

8. Find out…
1) The person’s name (obviously)
2) What he/she goes by (if it’s different)
3) His/her major and progress in the
program.
4) Why he/she decided to take Visual
Rhetoric
5) His/her favorite color
6) One piece of information that will help
all of us to remember him/her.

9. Now, then…
..let’s leap into Canvas and talk about the syllabus.

10. Some quick Visual fun
Take a look at the next few slides and tell me what’s
going on here. Look carefully. Sometimes you might
need to squint.

13. These illusions depend on
intricate line work, very
specific color and contrast
choices, the mind’s desire
to complete shapes and
patterns and the fact that
our eyes jitter a bit
normally.
If you squint hard and look
at each of these images,
they WILL become still. But
not for long.

14. This doesn’t pulse like the last one, but I
wanted to give you another cool visual
design trick here. On the next slide, you’ll see
two dots (and a weird image, and a white
space). Stare at the dot in the middle of the
image for 30 seconds, then shift your gaze to
the other dot.

17. Homework
For Thursday read:
The first 5 chapters of Williams The Non-Designer’s Design
Handbook.
And we talk C.R.A.P.