Category: VISUAL LITERACY

Yasha Rozov is a founder and artistic director of the Night Light Festival and an artistic director of Southern Lights festival, Beer Sheba. He is co-founder “The Refinery”– Artist’s collective Newe Shaanan; Active in “Hamerkazit” group at the old central bus station; Artistic Director of “The Jewish Salons” – pluralistic Jewish identity through culture and […]

Karel Míšek leads a Graphic Design Studio 1 at the Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. Karel Míšek studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of prof. František Muzika. He finished this study in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he […]

MgA. Barbora Müllerová gained her master’s degree in graphic design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem where she continues in her doctoral studies in the field of visual communication. Her thesis focuses on the socially engaged drawing and the phenomenon of the artzines selfpublishing. Since 2015 she has been an editor in […]

Matej Vázal is multi-disciplinary creator specializing in design, animation, 3D, VFX and direction. Visualization in Service Design (a speech with Markéta Nemeškalová) The rapid development in visualization technologies brings opportunities for many fields. Thanks to the connection of design, audio-visual arts and marketing at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication TBU in Zlín, we can carry […]

Markéta Nemeškalová is a researcher at Faculty of Multimedia Communication TBU in Zlín. There she is graduated from marketing communication and currently studying for PhD. in Multimedia and Design. She is a supporter of the design thinking concept and she applies it in all research projects. She is looking for the intersections of various scientific […]

Jakub Konupka is freelance graphic & type designer. Digital First: Visual Communication and Literacy in a World Dominated by Digital Media Given the current state of technology used as a means of visual communication, we predominantly create, share, and consume information in the digital form. This status quo, being relatively new (as we were ushered […]

Michaela Maua is a librarian in charge of a Digital Resources in the Library department, and the institutional Knowledge Management system Coordinator at Pwani University in Kenya. His education – in Kenyan Universities and Colleges – concentrated on Library Open source systems and Information Literacy. His present research focuses on visual literacy projects in different […]

Giuseppe Capriotti is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History at University of Macerata (Italy), where he teaches “History of Images”, “Artistic Geography” and “Iconography and Iconology”. After an interdisciplinary thesis in History of Religion – Early Modern Art History (2000), he won a scholarship for a PhD at University of Macerata (2000–2003), during which […]

Prof. Flavia Stara, Ph.D. is Full Professor in Philosophy of Education and Director of International Degree Course in Tourism and Cultural Heritage at the University of Macerata (Italy). Her education – both in Italy and in the USA (Harvard University) – concentrated on History of Philosophy and Education, Comparative Studies in Literatures and Cultures. Her […]

Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz, Professor in Humanities in field of Philosophy, specialist in philosophical aesthetics and theory of culture and art. Vice-chairman of the Polish Society of Aesthetics. The recipient of various prizes and grants; these include a scholarship from the Kościuszko Foundation for research on art, culture and aesthetics in the work of Joseph Margolis, and a […]