ENGL 505B

This link has a cool example of the visual rhetoric strategy "accumulation." The artist photographed young girls and boys in their bedrooms surrounded by all of their pink and blue toys, respectively. In my class, this led to a nice discussion of color and gender, as well as consumerism.

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/02/08/the-pink-and-blue-project-by...

Also, students seem enthusiastic about the "timeline of a corporate logo" assignment I've adapted from CDA. This link provides interesting commentary about trends in logo design in addition to an A to Z dictionary of corporate logos that have changed throughout time:

http://www.logoorange.com/

See you next week!
Crissy