Designing images
Exercise 1: Identifying visual communications
Using the list above, identify two or three different examples of each type of
communication. Try and find examples using different types of media (print,
web, moving image, etc.). Remember that you can access image libraries such as Bridgeman
Education through the OCA student website. Annotate your chosen images and store them in
your learning log.
In what ways do these images make reference to broader ideas of visual culture? Make some
notes.
- Persuasion
- Information
- Identity design
- Authorial content
- Interactive design
Alternative message
A picture is worth of a thousand words. Visual communication artists know this aspect better than anybody else.
Going on line looking for images I could upload onto my learning log/blog, I realised how strong, manipulating, provocative visual communication images can be.
They are everywhere but they are subtle.
The louder the message the more insignificant product.
We are everyday bombarded with messages of various context, concise, importance and credibility.
Using a set of various techniques aiming for our subconscious visual communications in the form of advertisements, are aiming to becoming a second nature to us so when we are buying an advertised product we obey to what we were programmed to do: consume.
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