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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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Published: Designing Captions — A new article on enhanced captioning

Posted on August 17, 2018October 6, 2020 by Sean Zdenek
A frame from Rick and Morty featuring Jerry driving his car enjoying 'human music.' The simple three-note sequence is represented on the back of Jerry's car seat, which is transformed in my custom captions into a piano keyboard.

Check out my new article on enhanced captioning, just published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedaogogy (23.1, 2018).

Read the full article: “Designing captions: Disruptive experiments with typography, color, icons, and effects.”

Posted in Captioning, Publishing, Visual Design

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