Thursday, 13 October 2016

Visual Literacy - The Language of Design

Lecture 1

Summary:

- Touched on how visual language is getting more and more imperative as we enter the most visual era ever (social media, ease of technology, instant connections, fibre).

- The new digital age, and how we’ve entered this global scale of communication through a visual medium. Is disregards language barriers and we find common connections through visual outputs.

- The importance as a designer in understanding how successful our communication is, drives the effectiveness of our practice.

- How it’s up to us to manipulate, vary and play with this complex visual language to effectively interpret and communicate a design brief




Visual literacy as a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, including:
Culture – how this varies and changes with influences
Context – the setting of a picture/ symbol can distort its meaning and/or clarity
Society – how is modernises / develops / not static / ever-changing


Key principal: language routes from a joint understanding on interpretation and meaning






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