Charles Kostelnick is a Professor at Iowa State University. He is the author of Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication and coauthor, with Michael Hassett, of Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Timely Design: Chronos, Kairos, and the Resilience of Visual Language2. Epideictic Design: The Visual Rhetorics of Praise and Blame 3. The Pathos of Memory: Sentiment, Nostalgia, and Rhetro Design4. Visual Storytelling: Temporal Elasticity and the Interplay between Micro- and Macro-Narratives5. The Myriad and Mutable Faces of Ethos: Designing Trust with Text and Image6. Making Visual History: Applications for Teaching, Learning, and Discovery Afterward: Whither Time, Visual Language, and Practical Communication?Works CitedIndex

"Visual Vestiges provides practical illustrations of visual rhetoric's temporal aspects and discussion of how the subject has changed historically. It also offers productive teaching suggestions to guide faculty and their students in the study of visual rhetoric's history and application." — Jeremy Tirrell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington"Visual Vestiges provides a unique angle into the study of visual design by proposing that history and rhetorical strategies are intertwined factors that affect existing design conventions. The author is a respected scholar in visual rhetoric and document design. Their work deeply engages major theories and key literature to establish an argument for a focus on time (or temporal factors) as an active agent that creates, shapes, stabilizes, destabilizes, and changes design practices. The interplay with classical rhetoric is profound." — Jason Tham, Texas Tech University