Friday, September 25, 2009

Week 5 Blog-Visual Language



The facial expression in this photo expresses the emotions of losing something very important. My mouth is open and my eyebrows are slanted up to show my feelings of agony of losing whatever I was holding onto. The sand slipping through my fingers is a good representation of how it feels to loose something very important.

In profile photographs on facebook, people like to express emotion through facial expressions.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Week 3 Blog-Feature channels and Visual Search

This image is a good example the use of feature channels and visual search. It uses the feature channels of shape and color. First our eyes are drawn to the red rectangle draws our attention to "Typo". Next we're drawn to the yellow colored word "ENGLISH". This relates to my area of study because I am in visual communication and I am interested in the typography aspect of design.










Image: The New typography by Jan Tschichold.
Web site: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/books/the-new-typography00.gif

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Exercise - Top-Down Visual Processing


Top-Down Visual Processing and My Existing Area of Study


(Image from The Hiser Group (2006). Web site: http://www.hiser.com.au/getting_started/visual_design_-__introduction.html)

It is a diagram of my area of current area of study, visual communication design. It shows elements that are used in design. This image is a good example of a top-down image because it is an image of a diagram. Diagrams capture attention as mentioned in the reading, Colin Ware’s Visual Thinking for Design. The viewer of this is forced to move their eyes around to understand the meaning of the image. The viewer goes from one section of the diagram to another to read the information given. As it says in the reading there is a process of linking and re-linking of the words in the bubbles and the words outside the bubbles.