In the readings assigned there were many important key factors that come to play when discussing the usage in language and communication. Language is a term used for vocal spoken activities that include an inner image as well. Language comes in many different forms and may or may not be understood depending on the person. However, proper language can be understood and conducted.
In addition symbols and icons are related to language because these symbols usually abbreviate a word or meaning. For example, roman numerals are a language and include icons as well as symbols that people communicated with. The pre-alphabetic system was a common style of writing. Signs, signifiers, and signified are used in general along with graphic communication because it represents a span; which is a line. The system of symbols is an important factor in the understanding of language although the language is a system of arbitrary signs and the lack of necessary basis.
Language plays a huge role in design because an art form is a type of language as the artist use imagery and visual connections to elaborate a specific theory or idea. The audience uses their language to decode pieces of art and graphic to outcome a reason of the visual. The language will continuously be a part of the design world. There are things design does that language cannot like consist of a three-dimensional feature such as shape and surface to use as a form of elaboration. Whereas language has a principle of construction.
Language and design are related especially in today’s time because language is seen as a tool for communication and the design scene is a visual language, both consisting of elements that form a language.
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