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This article from the New York Times is about pollution in different parts of the world. It is a full-length article, but it is set against a changing backdrop of floating dots that represent particulate pollution. The article detects the reader's…

I received this book while attending a talk about mass incarceration. One of the groups that spoke was the Free Minds Book Club, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. that hosts poetry writing workshops for incarcerated men. This book is an anthology of…

I was somewhat unsure of what to look for to identify a building as post-modernist in Raleigh, but I drove past this Extra-Space storage building and thought it had some characteristics that may place it into that category. First, its shape gives it…

I chose this image to complement our discussion of the evaluation of visual images in class last week. The design of the bookcover communicates a clear message and feeling. It is a book about the future of self-driving cars, and the dark color of the…

This is the Oculus in New York City. It is a transportation hub located between the World Trade Centers. I took this photo over winter break so you can see some Christmas decorations lining the balconies. The shape of this building is extremely…

This is a USB Splitter I recently bought because my laptop only has one USB port. This allows my computer to have four USB ports and can control which ports are being used with buttons. The blue light indicates which ports are being used. Its sleek…

Pictured here is the album cover of the most recent album by the Swedish metal band Sabaton that came out last July. The songs within the album are dedicated to stories from the First World War from both the Entente and the Central Powers. This war…

The Roku remote is a device that requires visual literacy due to the fact that it is relatively different than most normal remotes. If you had not used a Roku before, it is likely you would not completely understand this remote at first glance. Aside…

The Maltese Parliament House is characteristic of post modern architecture's reception and purpose. It's somewhat a functional classicist take with its hulking limestone exteriors, symmetrically covering up two separate buildings on stilts with 3…

This is a picture of Renaldo Rivera’s monument to Juan de Onate, sometimes referred to as the ‘the last conquistador’, in Alcalde, New Mexico. This monument is one of a few dispersed around New Mexico and Texas, which were built around 1998 to…