Cantlon Chapter 9

The author of this book did make use of literary elements to tell the story. These elements are also used in other picture books such as lines, shapes, color and speech bubble. The book is a graphic novel and dialogue takes majority of the writing in the book. The dialogical and concise style of writing of the author including the pictures

Our beliefs, time, money, and actions are all being fought over with design as the arsenal. The graphic designer learns how to participate in this fight through education, intuition, creativity, and technical skills. Though helpful, a formal education in design is not what is meant here. The education needed is more about understanding the previously mentioned rules we are working with. Intuition is required in order to know when it is appropriate to adjust or disregard these rules. Creativity is needed because redundancy will not break through the wall into the internal world. Technical skills are essential because poor craft reduces credibility. This idea of the world as an arena is a reoccurring theme in The Cheese Monkeys, and the importance of education, intuition, creativity, and technical skills have been further reinforced to us through the grading process and classroom discussions in Graphic Design

“People only see what they are prepared to see” is a famous quote by Ralph Waldo. This quote emphasises the fact that the purpose of a text can often be unnoticed and misinterpreted by the viewer. Many people only have a limited world experience, and it’s the Distinctly Visual feature of a text which allows the viewer to gain a better understanding. Distinctly Visual texts use a combination of techniques to create and shape an audience’s point of view or interpretation, and visualising a text requires the responder to interpret all of the images presented.

Graphic design is a vast industry in visual communication, using information, typography, isotopes, and diagrams as a way to communicate across to its audiences. Through detailed investigations of design and taking on Robin Kinross (1985), claims that the distinction between design for information and design for persuasion “cannot be a clear one” this work will explore the possibilities of visual rhetoric in graphic design.

The well-known writer and cognitive scientist/cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, Donald A. Norman, in his book, Emotional Design: “Why we love (or hate) everyday things”, he analyzes the design elements in products. Norman’s purpose is to show why products we use should not be hard to use but attractive and fun. He explains in tremendous detail how the design of an object affects a person emotionally. He argues that in order for an object to be more successful it must be more attractive to the users. Norman uses concrete evidence to back up his argument. He employs the use of imagery, diction and tone in order to convey to his readers the idea of emotional design.

In Tiffany Salinas’s post, they talk about how document design is important to gain the reader’s attention.

Understanding the text with the concept of formalism in mind, art alters our perceptions of item that we once believed were understood. Art alters our perception by presenting it self in a different way, or in a new context. Formalism comes into play during this topic for in order to

I analyzed Lynda Barry’s graphic novel from several perspectives, first as an artist, and second as a feminist who experienced childhood trauma. At first glance, the book cover immediately drew my attention. Aesthetically, the juxtaposed cover incorporates the fundamentals of the elements of design through various line directions and widths, three-dimensional and two-dimensional organic and geometric shapes, a spectrum of complementary colors, the utilization of negative and positive spaces, along with, real and implied textures. Barry’s collage of images of photos, hand-drawn imaginary creatures, glued on lace, ribbons, felt and paper materials all display the principles of design through asymmetrical balance. The unified book cover displays

Some books use print as an important part of visual art because it draws the reader’s attention to the letters and words (Kiefer, 2007). Some letters in story books are printed bigger, bolder, more colorful and many more from the other letters in the book. By looking at this, we know that the author is trying to emphasize on something. However, by only reading the words, we do not know what feelings are convey through those bigger and bolder words. This is why images goes well with texts when there are letters of other shapes and sizes.

Through the discovery of advertisements, stock photography and semiotics, I have seen that design goes far beyond aesthetics and pleasing the eye, design affects societies and has the power to change cultures. I believe that I have demonstrated that design is a complex field of study with many aspects, including that of sociology and shaping the way in which society continues to

In Canto 22 it starts off with Dante and Virgil walking in the eighth circle. Dante describes the movement of a group of calvary men moving breathlessly past a group of demons blowing their trumpets. He notices the soldiers tend to act differently once they are in the presence of demons. Dante and Virgil then find themselves in the pitch, which is a spiraling bottomless pit of souls. Dante compares the souls in the pitch to the arched back of a dolphin swimming in the ocean. He then stares off into the pitch wondering all the things it contains and who burns within it. Every now and then a sinner would pop up from the pitch to alleviate the unbearable pain of the boiling hot water; Dante compares them to frogs squatting about in water with

An accomplished figure in the field of typography Emil Ruder is a modernist graphic designer and typographer that work within the constraints of the international typographic style movement commonly known as the Swiss style. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Emil Ruder first began his design education from the age of 15 til his late twenties. His early academia and the modernist era in which he worked in clearly influenced his practices, philosophies and principles which in turn impacted his teachings and works that would later garner an international reputation at its peak in the mid 1950s. This case study will explore the principles, philosophies, practices and achievements of Emil Ruder and how these key points are affect in the context of the 20th century world and its changing times. Emil Ruder worked primarily during time wherein the modernist moment was vastly prominent.

Meredith Davis’s book “Graphic Design Theory” was published in September 2012 by Thames & Hudson. This book blends a study of historical thinking of design with contemporary / modern approach to it. It also suggests students to critically analyse their work and asks them to adopt the design theories to embellish their practical design work as it will help them construct better work. This book also helps in understanding the consumers and the history of Graphic Design and also talks about a range of theories and introduces a collection of concepts and sources for future use and reference. In this book, Meredith Davis talks about the relationship of visual representation to the contexts of design. It talks about focusing on the broad and long term aftereffects of design and not to design only for the moment and responding to prompt needs.

The first technique to be mentioned involves a quality of the book that is first displayed

The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.