Teaching resources

• Perception
• Communication and Theory
• Web Design
• Persistence of Vision: Animation history, theory and practice
• Instructional graphics
• Information graphics
• Perspective
• Pictograms
• Photography
• Visual narratives
• Links

Informatics

• Mnemosyne's Bones: Designing Online Content
• Approaches to Graphic User interface Design
• Information Design and Architecture
• Matrix: Mapping History

Perception

• Come to your Senses
  by ThinkQuest.com http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3750/index
• Colour perception and cultural specificity
• Computer colour
  by John Bleaney and Shiralee Saul
• Auditory perception overview
• Other senses and synaesthesia
• The mystery of smell
  by Seeing,Hearing and Smelling the World http://www.hhmi.org/senses/start.htm
• Visual illusions: It's all in the Brain: Illusions reveal the brain's assumptions
  by Seeing,Hearing and Smelling the World http://www.hhmi.org/senses/start.htm
• The 'Laws of Perception'
• Our senses and 'percieving'
  edited from 'GAPS, MAPS AND PERCEPTION: WHAT HYPERTEXT READERS (DON'T) DO,'
  J. Yellowlees Douglas

Communication and Theory

• Communication Theory
  • Rhetoric
  • Claude Shannon and Information Theory
  • Nobert Weiner and Cybernetics
  • Saussure and Semiotics
  • Media and McLuhen
  • Nonvocal communication
  • Harold Innis and technologies of time and space
  • Bruce Sterling defines media

Related Ideas

• Entropy
• Structuralism
  by K.I.S.S of the Panopticon, http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/panop
• Baudrillard, the Simulation and the Simulacra
  by K.I.S.S of the Panopticon, http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/panop
• Genre
• Simon Penny's 'Paradigm Busters'

Design Resources

• Instructional graphics
• Information graphics
• Perspective
• Pictograms
• Photography
• Visual narratives

Web Design

• File Structure
• Structural elements of an HTML document
• Text formating
• Graphics
• Web colour table

• Persistence of Vision: Animation history, theory and practice

Updated February 2004