Suguru Ishizake Bio

Suguru Ishizaki’s research focuses on developing tools for communication design, and for the past several years has addressed problems and opportunities associated with the design of digital communication media. In his book, Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (2003), he proposed a descriptive model of design--along with a series of computational experiments--that would allow designers to represent design solutions that are responsive to dynamic changes in the information recipient's intention, in the situation, and in the information. He also explored Kinetic Typography--a study of how different situated meanings of written text emerge by expressing the text using animated forms. Recently, he has been working on developing a theoretical framework that would allow us to analyze how surface visual design decisions relate to rhetorical effects. He has also collaborated with David Kaufer on rhetorical text analysis. The results of this collaboration were published in Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft (2004), co-authored by David Kaufer, Jeff Collins, and Brian Butler. He is also a practicing interaction and visual designer.

	*Suguru Ishizaki, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design*
	Suguru Ishizaki’s research focuses on developing tools for communication design, and for the past several years has addressed problems and opportunities associated with the design of digital communication media. In his book, Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (2003), he proposed a descriptive model of design--along with a series of computational experiments--that would allow designers to represent design solutions that are responsive to dynamic changes in the information recipient's intention, in the situation, and in the information. He also explored Kinetic Typography--a study of how different situated meanings of written text emerge by expressing the text using animated forms. Recently, he has been working on developing a theoretical framework that would allow us to analyze how surface visual design decisions relate to rhetorical effects. He has also collaborated with David Kaufer on rhetorical text analysis. The results of this collaboration were published in Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft (2004), co-authored by David Kaufer, Jeff Collins, and Brian Butler. He is also a practicing interaction and visual designer.