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Professional designers meticulously balance hierarchical visual elements, ensuring that headlines, masthead, primary imagery, and supplementary text create a dynamic compositional narrative that can instantaneously communicate the publication's identity and appeal to its target demographic.
Magazine Cover Design Creates A Visual Rhetoric
The most effective designs operate as compelling and inviting visual rhetoric, using visual rhetoric to negotiate complex relationships between graphic communication, consumer psychology, and brand identity, transforming the cover from a mere informational surface into a nuanced cultural artefact that mediates between editorial content and potential readership.
Is our pubic memory melting like the timepieces in Salvador Dalí’s painting? Are we forgetting the causes we once collectively thought fitting to be engaged with?
Going with the indications, the Lakshadweep reorganisations and developments are to prepare ground for the big corporates to walk in. They aim to unsettle the natives; destroy the insulation that they enjoy as the natives of the island, and make them and their properties vulnerable to huge corporates. The Indian Government has been trying to ushering in and backing up the big corporates in a huge way.
It is fashionable to be an advocate of environment, speak and write about it; but the solution is in getting engaged with it as equal partners.
When is it enough? This is a question of justice. When you say enough, othering will lose its relevance. I repeat the question, when is it enough? When will men be satisfied? When all in power are from my clan and party? When all in decision-making are from my gender. When all offering sacrifice at the altar are men? When all land is under my command? When all businesses are merged, bought, and owned by my company? Unchecked power is tyranny.
Nothing teaches so well as failures. There have been hundreds of wars of all kinds since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which once and for all defeated Napoleon’s lust for war. The toll of human misery and death at war measures around 30,000,000 since the Waterloo, and there never have been any other result for war than death and misery. However humanity is yet to learn.
In 1946 Jawaharlal Nehru said that India is four hundred million separate individual men and women, each differing from the other, each living in a private universe of thought and feeling. Today we have 1.26 billion separate individual. Numbers have grown, and with it fragmentations too.
Studies have established that emotional intelligence plays a role in promoting pro-social behaviour; and minimising antisocial behaviours. Individuals with high emotional intelligence show better empathy, and less negative behaviours in interactions with others.
We are entering the election year. We are entering the most vulnerable phase of our democracy. The most exposed and susceptible point of a democracy is during its elections.
We sit, in buses and trains, on transits, in office, even on our thrones, scrolling down on our screens. We get influenced, immersed, and lost in the content and form of the mass media. Plato’s 24-century-old allegory of the cave is so very true in the case of the social media today.
We are at the turn of a year. One of the foremost thinkers and philosophers of China, Confucius, four centuries before the common era, said, “We have two lives; the second one begins when we realise we have only one.” One can begin one’s second life from any point in one’s life. Every time we show a little more courage to love, speak the truth, etc. we are beginning our second life. When we decide to help someone, or more importantly, be brave enough to ask for help we are beginning our next year, next life. Martin Heidegger famously said that your destiny cannot be changed, but can be challenged. Every time we begin again, we are challenging our density.
Religion, as we have it today, prefers patriarchy, favours hierarchy, and is soft on irrationality, which diametrically opposes modern thinking and times; look again, it is religious fundamentalism.
We must not miss this point, as material success stories of corporations, multinationals, political parties, religious establishments, societies, and families upsurge, numbers of people with mental illnesses too will explode.
Agency is considered as a core component of the broader concept of empowerment, whether for women, men, or others of the spectrum; be it children, elderly, and other vulnerable adults. It is their ability to define and act on goals, make decisions that matter to them, realise their aspirations, and participate in the economy and public life.
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