Carolyn M Bloomer, Ph.D.

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To contact Carolyn Bloomer, or to request copies of any publications listed on this site, please e-mail to cbloomer@c.ringling.edu, or to contact@carolynbloomer.com

Selected Works

Visual Perception

PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION, 2nd revised edition

Relates everyday visual experience to psychology, culture, and art.

"What Makes Us Look?"

Basic principles of visual perception for graphic designers.

Information Design

"Cultural Modes of Information Perception: China and Japan"

Ways in which viewers read design elements and text are not universal, but involve crucial cultural differences in perception and cognition.

1930s Shanghai

THE NEW CHINESE WOMAN: CALENDAR POSTERS IN 1930s SHANGHAI

Behind this highly collectible genre lies a fascinating historical study.

Music Video

FROM BEIJING TO SHANGHAI BY TRAIN, Summer 2000 铁路风景：从北京到上海 2000 年下

Footage shot from train window accompanied by Chinese-jazz fusion erhu music.

U.S.-China Cultural Exchange

Behind China's Great Wall

PBS/WEDU documentary of American cultural exchange delegation to Guizhou Province, China.

Chinese Economy

CHINESE NEW YEAR'S PICTURES AND THE EMERGING MARKET ECONOMY

Consumer-oriented values gradually replace traditional symbols in popular art.

Subliminal Racism

"Skin Color, Ethnicity, and Graphic Infrastructure in Mass-media Images"

How attitudes toward people of color are reinforced in journalistic and advertising images.

Color and Culture

"Peace, Ghosts, and Innocence"

How color symbolism varies across cultures.

Graphic Design

"The Multicultural Designer"

Developing literacy for designing across cultures.

Visual Communication

"Tweaking the Envelope"

A new look at models of communication for graphic designers.

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