Week 14: Designed Visual Information

Representational

This is a realistic painting of bison on a field. This drawing is a good example of representational level because the artist have tried to report what he look and recognize from his environment around and the experience hi had when he saw the bisons on the field. The painting is very realistic and give us a  dominating visual experience.

Abstract

In this example of Abstraction the artist tries to delivery a more powerful visual message through the abstract quality of the elements and the whole design by itself. The power of the message is based on the reduction of the realistic visual information and the effective arrangement of the elements which is more significant to the understanding and structuring if the visual message.

Symbolic

In this example we can see the symbols created for the Olympic Games in Beijing 08'. This symbols denote the different sports for the Olympic Games. These symbols are pretty simple and very recognizable; they are easily to connect with the sport that they represent and that makes them effective for the transmission of information.

Week 13: Visual Techniques

Bod Dylan - Milton Glaser

Contrast, Asymentry, Simplicity

Unity

The Typografe of David Carson

Irregularity, Instability, Complexity,

Fragmentation, Intricacy, Activeness

Distortion, Juxtaposition

These two poster use different techniques to communicate their message. In the first one we can see that the use of contrast is the predominant technique, also the unity and singularity of the poster make us focus in the silhouette of the artist. The designer also add some color to contrast to the black and white part of the poster. On the other hand, the second part is more complicated, it is more irregular and intrincated. All the distortion and juxtaposition going on in the poster make it more active. In this way the designer tries to communicate his message.