1. VISUAL
RHETORIC
ELEMENTS OF POSTER DESIGN
Created in Collaboration
with the Communication
Center at Georgia Tech

2. Agenda
Social Issues
Design Principles
Sample Posters

9. Design Principles
Arrangement
Chunking
Alignment
Consistency
Font
Color
Contrast

10. C.R.A.P.
Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity

11. Sample Posters
Realizing Advanced Gaming Experience Through Brain Connections in Virtual World
Simulations
The Somnalaborator and Its Negative Impact on Mankind
The Duchess’ Domicile: An Iconic Moment Brilliantly Chosen
Hatters’ Watch: Greg Hilderbrandt’s Style of Art for His Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
God Is Dead
Celebrities: Role Model or Deity?
The Humanization of the Angel Gibreel

12. Hengte Lin & Yuxiao Wu
Background Social Impacts Applications
For the time being, Virtual Reality (VR) is Improve education - One character that distinguishes human Learning games - various scenarios can be simulated
merely more than a common theme in beings from animals is systematic education. However, not enabling players to learn skills with less cost, lower risk and
science fictions and movies. However, in the everyone in the society is exposed to equal educational more fun.
future, the technology of VR will definitely resources. VR games with brain connections will make it much Future-planning games - players can get career orientations
create huge impacts on every aspect of our easier, cheaper, faster and more interesting to obtain different by experiencing the life of professions.
knowledge and skills. Problem-solving games - the virtual environment is simulated
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) life. One of the most fascinating application
goes to VR games. vividly to help solve real-world problems.
Inspire creativity - According to the results of the experiments Creating games – 3D modeling
Current Virtual Reality environments mostly conducted by Jackson et al, positive relationship exists
involve only visual images, sound experiences, platform is provided so that the
between videogame and creativity. (See the following diagram players can be inspired to design
and force feedback. Technical limitations in for research data.) With better lifelike experience, Virtual
processing power and communication the future world.
Reality games can definitely boost players’ creativity and
bandwidth hinder the realization of high- inspire more great inventions (2011).
fidelity VR experience. Potential Problems
Facilitated by the new technology of human  Virtual world will isolate human beings from one another
brain connections, advanced Virtual Reality and deprive them of face-to-face interactions, causing
games will be used to provide learning Matrix (1999) diseases like social phobia.
opportunities, inspire inventions, and solve  Obsession with the feeling
real-world problems. of committing crimes in the
How Does It Work? VR games will result in the
loss of humanity and
Our Posthuman invention overcomes the technical obstacles morality.
by enabling direct information exchange between the server  The direct connection
and human brains rather than using standard input devices between human brains and
Solve real-world problems - In 2011, through a protein- server machines can result
such as a keyboard and mouse, or multimodal devices such
folding game called Foldit, a group of U.S. gamers helped in safety and privacy
as a wired glove and omnidirectional treadmills. However, we
unlock the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme that had been problems.
still implement a user machine between the server and
baffling scientists for a decade. With the 3-dimentional
human brain because it will act as a signal converter and a
firewall preventing attacks from the viruses in the server.
modeling platform realized in VR, it is for sure References
that the players can
The user machines can convert brain Jackson, L.A., Witt, E.A., Games, A.I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., &
signals into electronic ones, send them
further explore the real- Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings
to the server terminal, get feedback, world problems in a from the Children and Technology Project. Computers in Human
and translate them again into brain virtual world and give Behavior, 28(2), 370-376.
signals. The direct information
exchange allows the users to
solutions to benefit the Peckham, M. (2011, September). Foldit games solve AIDS puzzle that
experience lifelike physical and whole society (Peckham, baffled scientists for a decade. Time. Retrieved March 13, 2012
psychological feelings just as what 2011). from http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/foldit-gamers-solve-aids-
they do in reality. puzzle-that-baffled-scientists-for-decade/

14. Poster Courtesy Brandy Blake

15. Poster Courtesy Brandy Blake

16. Image courtesy
Roger Whitson

17. Image courtesy
Roger Whitson

18. Image courtesy
Roger Whitson