The Visual Elements¿Abstraction - Felice C. Frankel

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Résumé :
For anyone interested in visual communication, a training guide for evaluating and developing visual metaphors for the big ideas in science and technology, an essential skill for journal submissions, grant applications, and public understanding.

> Like in her other books in the Visual Elements series, on photography and design, Frankel asks readers to evaluate different choices--for example, in conveying the uncertainty of a hurricane's path or the organization of the Standard Model for elementary particles. But in Abstraction, she offers more. With examples from science, engineering, and beyond, the book helps readers consider and evaluate the visuals around them and determine how they work and when they fail. Is this representation the best for communication? Will these abstractions continue to invite others to think more deeply about my research? Will they mislead? Will they help my ideas evolve? Frankel invites researchers to think about the many meanings behind their images--and, in turn, more deeply about their research....

Biographie:
Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with support from Mechanical Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At MIT, Frankel developed and instructed the first online MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) for edX addressing science and engineering photography. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel has had images appear in Nature, Science, Cell, TheNew York Times, National Geographic, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science, and New Scientist, among others. She is the coauthor of Visual Strategies and author of Picturing Science and Engineering...

Sommaire:
Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with support from Mechanical Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At MIT, Frankel developed and instructed the first online MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) for edX addressing science and engineering photography. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel has had images appear in Nature, Science, Cell, TheNew York Times, National Geographic, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science, and New Scientist, among others. She is the coauthor of Visual Strategies and author of Picturing Science and Engineering...