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[Karen Schriver <ks0e+ -at- ANDREW -dot- CMU -dot- EDU>]

On Nov. 30 Jessica Shultz asked about visual placement of graphics.

> Subject: Visual Placement
>
> I am a graduate student at Brigham Young University and have narrowed my
> thesis topic to the ethics of visual placement.I have been reading
Karen Schriver's textbook, Dynamics of Document Design, and her section
on the Gestalt Principles have been of great benefit. I have also read
articles by Charles Kostelnick and Sam Dragga regarding visual placement
and ethics, respectively. I am now looking at various articles about
ethics and visual placement. Unfortunately, I have not been able to read
them all.
> To make a long email short, I am curious to know if anyone on this list is
> also researching a similar topic or if anyone would know of other good
> sources for ethics and visual placement in document design.
> I have written a draft of a paper on this topic using Schriver,
Dragga, and Kostelnick, but it only covers the principles of visual
placement with a
> little bit of ethical information.   So, basically, I am stuck.
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Several people asked me about the answer I gave to her on Dec. 1 in
which I copied a post of a recent book from the Infodesign mailing list.
Questions were about how to subscribe to the Info-design list. That
answer was given in part by Marilyn O'Leary on Dec. 2. She mentioned the
info-design mailing list and STC's info-design SIG mailing list. In
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karen schriver
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