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Visual Communication
Volume 6(3), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Davis, Jack My brother Michael. 243-264
 
  In this visual essay, the author "continues to work on his long-term project of documenting his relationship with his older disabled, autistic brother" (264) 
 
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visualization
 
 
Grider, Nicholas 'Faces of the Fallen' and the dematerialization of US war memorials. 265-279
 
  The advent of Internet technology has enabled the process of memorialization of those killed in US military conflicts to keep pace with the casualties themselves and, as such, has marked a shift in both the ideology of the war memorial as symbol and the ideology-driven media use of those symbols 
 
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computer
technologies
military and armed conflict
theory
 
 
Rigley, Steve An unbearable lightness? 281-304
 
  This article considers various notions of 'beauty' and how these have informed the creative and critical processes of graphic design, specifically typography 
 
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print journalism
visualization
science
history
rhetoric
text and writing
 
 
Thurlow, Crispin, and Aiello, Giorgia National pride, global capital: A social semiotic analysis of transnational visual branding in the airline industry. 305-344
 
  In this article we examine 561 different airline tailfin designs as a visual genre, revealing how the global-local binary may be managed and realized semiotically 
 
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visualization
semiotic theory
organizational
metaphor
economics
 
 
Barwell, Claire Frozen memories: Unthawing Scott of the Antarctic in cultural memory. 345-357
 
  This article explores the staging of memory and death and the connotative differences within still photographs and film 
 
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memory
death
visualization
film