Roland Barthes “Rhetoric of the Image” essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
- How do images hold and convey meaning?
- How do we understand them?
- What are they trying to say?
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You will be reading and annotating a text written by Katherine McCoy and David Frej “Typography as Discourse” 1988 found in our main text Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field by Helen Armstrong.
Questions
- Find 2 examples of
Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics, Laurence King Publishing, 2012. pgs 21-67.
Questions:
- How has language shaped design historically?
- Can visual design accomplish things that language cannot? Why?
- How are signs, signifiers, and the signified
Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
Find 2 examples of the work of postmodern graphic designers from the 1980s.
Deconstruct the work. Explain which visual elements are associated with postmodernism of the 1980s … Read More
At the top of the post copy and paste the following: Roland Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image” essay from Image – Music – Text, Translated by Stephen Heath. Hill and Wang, 1977. (excerpt)
Questions / Prompts
- How do images
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