Articles on Communication
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips on Communication, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
- Author:
- Luciano Cassisi
- Title:
- Logo Functions
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- Not all logos are used for the same purposes. Knowing in detail the functions that they must fulfill, is essential to design them well.
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- Author:
- Fernando Rodríguez Álvarez
- Title:
- The citizen designer
- Synopsis:
- In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
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- Author:
- Silvina Rodriguez Picaro
- Title:
- Finding Your Perfect Brand Name
- Synopsis:
- Every company needs names for their business, for their products, for their services, for their procedures, and even for their mascots (if they have them)!
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- Author:
- Fernando Navia Meyer
- Title:
- Graphic design's carbon footprint
- Synopsis:
- Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.
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- 146
- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Design and message credibility
- Synopsis:
- Communicates' design as a mean to the conquest of plausibility: sender and referent transparency.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Don't Mess with My Design!
- Synopsis:
- The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Corporate Brand: Selling a Design or Transfering a Resource?
- Synopsis:
- The advantage of agreeing with the client the sectorial diagnostic and the typological selection before proceeding to the brand's design.
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- 3800
- Author:
- Jorge Del Toro
- Title:
- What Does My Design Communicate?
- Synopsis:
- Bad communication is a problem that we experience every day. Design plays an important role in communication and should be congruent.
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- 24
- Author:
- Daniela Del Pino
- Title:
- Branding types
- Synopsis:
- Branding is connected with brand image, positioning and reputation. It is the result of an endless list of marketing and design strategies.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- Some ideas are too big
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- We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- A “graphic Houdini”
- Synopsis:
- The combined role of programmatic restrictions and creativity in the accomplishment of message effectiveness.
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- 3800
- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- Social design cases
- Synopsis:
- Social design as a part of graphic design is not only a matter of concepts; it is fundamentally awareness on what is designed and what is done.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- A passion for design
- Synopsis:
- Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
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- 803
- Author:
- Lorena Garcia Hidalgo
- Title:
- Why Does the Client Think Different?
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- When a client rejects our work is usually because we do not take their opinion into account. We think that it is only us, the designers, who have the knowlegde.
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- Author:
- Sebastian Guerrini
- Title:
- I am designer anthropologist
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- My job, to design brands for clients who have an international projection, led me to do a different activity from the one of the traditional designer.
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- With or Without a Logo-Symbol
- Synopsis:
- A brand choice conditioned by the profile of the organization and its communication.
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- 3800
- Author:
- Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
- Title:
- When Conviction Gets in the Way
- Synopsis:
- Not all pathways lead us to the same design, nor we all have to design through the same pathway.
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- 273
- Author:
- Greta Sánchez
- Title:
- Instagram: Rage for Ubiquitous Image
- Synopsis:
- The most succesful image social network, beyond predjudices about it triviality, is also a tool that can be used in marketing, visual education and ethnograpic research.
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- 78
- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- Innovation on Design Is Not Inside Design
- Synopsis:
- Nowadays, is common to listen in almost every conversation “innovation” term. Everything must be “innovative”. However, innovation is not the same for everyone.
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- Author:
- Martha Gutiérrez Miranda
- Title:
- Design and intelligence development
- Synopsis:
- Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.
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- Author:
- Mariane Garcia Unanue
- Title:
- Ambient design and new technologies
- Synopsis:
- New ambients and spaces go along with habit and behavior changes in people. In this scenario: what is the role of technology?
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- Author:
- Norberto Chaves
- Title:
- Verbal/Non Verbal as an Identifying Polarity
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- The typological role in identity reference.
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- 3800
- Author:
- Jorge Luis Muñoz
- Title:
- Social design: definitions
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- Graphic design seeking for understanding between sender and receiver through communication.
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- 146
- Author:
- Pau De Riba
- Title:
- Invisible Design
- Synopsis:
- After the “premium” stage where design acts as quality mark, good design should become a “commodity”, a component of the welfare society we take for granted.
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- Author:
- Sofia Escudero
- Title:
- Holistic and bimodal study in packaging
- Synopsis:
- The application of a multi sensorial study of packaging puts us nearer, more accurately, to a brand's global perception.
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- Author:
- Victor Garcia
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- Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’
- Synopsis:
- A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.
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- 189
- Author:
- Jorge Del Toro
- Title:
- Creating Emotional Ties with Customers
- Synopsis:
- Companies should do more for their customers: they should establish an emotional connection.
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- Author:
- David Gallo
- Title:
- Planned Obsolescence
- Synopsis:
- Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.
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- 73
- Author:
- Juanjo Junoy
- Title:
- To Think, Feel and Do: Three Clues to Perception
- Synopsis:
- Understanding how our perception works and how it affects us is the clue to produce really effective messages, not just award-winning ones.
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- Author:
- Sebastian Guerrini
- Title:
- How to Design Political Campaigns
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- A recommended structure for designing a political campaign.
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- 165
- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- About Effectiveness
- Synopsis:
- Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.
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- Author:
- Pablo Bertero
- Title:
- Creative Myopia
- Synopsis:
- The lack of strategic thinking in design and creativity proposals leads indirectly to the standardization of creative results.
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- Author:
- Fernando Del Vecchio
- Title:
- The challenge of communicating value
- Synopsis:
- A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.
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- Author:
- Raúl Belluccia
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- And, how my client's brand is doing?
- Synopsis:
- To diagnose the “health state” of a client's brand is essential to tackle it's effective redesign.
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- Author:
- Marco Rinaldi
- Title:
- Management vs. Leadership
- Synopsis:
- We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.
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- Author:
- Vanessa Lerner
- Title:
- Do We Really Know What a Graphic Brand Conveys?
- Synopsis:
- If we really know the meaning of a graphic brand, will we be closer to know what is probably being created in the public's mind?
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