An Invitation

Fellow readers,

You’re invited!

Here at Tender Moments with IPD, you can savour a warm cup of chamomile tea, bite off the thickest block of chocolate or simply allow the purest breeze of fondness to catch you off guard. Well of course, there’s more! Straighten your backs as you greet the givers of imagination, grace through the courts of verbal discourse, critic the gallery of visual imagery while you enjoy the sights and sound of technological innovation.

In simpler terms, Tender Moments with IPD serves as a platform to address pivotal issues regarding the art of document design; to investigate the workability of publication theories in practice and to question the latest discoveries in communication studies. Yes, all these while you sip through that cup of chamomile tea!

So, what are you waiting for? Need a reason? Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) highlight the lack of education in visual and multimodal texts among schools, simultaneously advocating its importance at this age of globalization. Furthermore, Bearne (cited in Walsh 2006) asserts that a paradigm shift, from monomodal to multimodal text, is simply inevitable.

As such, this is a trumpet call to all document designers, professionals and novices alike, students in pursuit of communication studies or just about anyone who’s curious about the world of publication and document design.

No, you don’t need to wave like the Queen to be a part of this! It’s as simple as just dropping by and picking up your cup of tea.

So until then, I’m looking forward to our first cup of tea…


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References

Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, Reading images: the grammar of visual design, Routledge, New York.

Walsh, M 2006, “‘Textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,” Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, p.24-37.