Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Visual rhetoric and the special eloquence of design artifacts / Leslie Atzmon -- Visual style and forms of science in the Cold War / Michael J. Golec -- Collapse : the erasure of time, history, and memory in the urban landscape of northern Ireland / Kate Catterall -- Riot Grrl punk : a case study in the personal politics of British riot Grrrl fanzines / Teal Triggs -- Architecture and the politics of reading : Nikola Dobrovic and the Generalstab Building in Belgrade / Vladimir Kulic -- The essential outline : John Flaxman and Neoplatonism in early nineteenth-century manufactures / Jane Webb -- Arms akimbo : kinesic analysis in visual and verbal art / Guillemette Bolens -- Industrialization, human agency, and the materiality of illustration in the Victorian press / Gerry Beegan -- Dinosaur design / Barry Curtis -- Supernatural selection : Sidney Sime's weird science / Leslie Atzmon -- Visual design narratives : detection, meaning, and programming / Jack Williamson -- Visual essays. Introduction. Types of ornamental eloquence / Leslie Atzmon -- "Iced up" and "platinum plus" : the development of hip-hop typographic ornaments / Ryan Molloy -- Regen(d)erating decoration : cultural narratives in ornamented fonts magneto motivity / Lori Young.