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Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Advertising, design, and visual communication guided by lightness. Where narrative, aesthetics, emotion, and media deceleration converge

This article examines contemporary visual communication -particularly advertising, graphic design, and information design- through a theoretical framework centred on lightness, aestheticisation, empathetic seduction, kitsch, and media deceleration. Drawing on the contributions of Lipovetsky, Bauman, Han, and Fidalgo, the study interprets visual communication not merely as a functional tool for persuasion or consumpt…

picked 11 Aug 2026

Reference · Wikidata

Graphic Design: A History

book by Alain Weill, from “Abrams Discoveries” series

picked 14 Aug 2026

Book · DOAB

The Fine Art of Persuasion

Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.

picked 13 Aug 2026

Full text · Open Library

Handbook of early advertising art, mainly from American sourcesHandbook of early advertising art, mainly from American sources
cover via Open Library
picked 13 Aug 2026
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