Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Elegant design over exact implication

Elegant design over exact implication

Design as a communication-oriented discipline

Despite all the negative connotations, persuasion is not necessarily an underhanded device, but rather a socially acceptable form of reasoning.

Because all human communication is, in one way or another, infiltrated rhetorically, design for visual or verbal communication cannot be exempt from that fact.

According to Quintilian, rhetorical figures generate rules that can be looked upon as means of "lending credibility to our arguments" and "exciting the emotions."


He also considered the use of these figures as "the art of saying something in a new form" to give a message greater vitality and impact.

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