Visual Journalism: Reading the Redesigns Visual journalism, or the “ability to project a news story through image and design”, is becoming a very important compliment to the written part in journalism. Just like certain words are critically chosen when writing an article, visual elements like images, fonts, and layout should also be...
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Building the World’s Visual Language: The Increasing Global Importance of Image Banks in Corporate Media The article discusses how images of image banks such as Getty Images are somewhat symbolic and represent intangible concepts instead of being descriptive and informative. The article first gives a brief history of the image industry and...
The article discusses methods for analyzing how people are represented in images. Through these methods the article recognizes and gives examples of several means of visual racism. The article first says that images need words to anchor their meaning. Words give images their intended context. Words however, can sometimes be racist, and the...
Hand gestures have always been used in political propaganda as a way to emphasize a certain message or as a way to grab attention and directly communicate with viewers on a more personal level. Let’s take a look at some hand gestures used in political propaganda… The Victory Sign: Tales say that the V sign was originally derived from...
Stanley Morison was a British typographer who designed and revived many typefaces, Times New Roman being the most famous one of them. During his life, Morison worked for Monotype Corporation, The Times newspaper and Cambridge University Press, and served as the editor of a typographic journal called The Fleuron. He was the typographic advisor at...
“You’ve been sitting there for 3 hours now… doing nothing! Don’t you have anything else to do? GET UP, It’s bad for you!” “NO! WHY SHOULD I?” Computer games are children’s (and even adults’) modern way of having fun. Children can now sit for hours in front of their PCs. Contrary to what...
“Cool” is a “new-generation” word used to describe something or anything that a person likes or finds original, fancy, surprising, trendy, or fun. It is used to describe something that appeals to the person: a thing, an idea, another person… “Cool” depends on a person’s tastes, so every person has a...
What is Gothic? To first answer this question, one must first acknowledge the existence of a Gothic subculture. So what is the Gothic subculture exactly? A subculture is “a group of people with beliefs, attitudes, customs, and other forms of behavior differing from those of the dominant society, while at the same time being related to...
Horror, according to Oxford dictionary, is “intense shock and fear or disgust”. Have you seen The Exorcist II? It’s supposed to be a horror movie, but doesn’t really stand up to these horror standards. It’s a terrible sequel to the original movie, and has a storyboard that’s anything but clear, making it...
The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is often considered the founder of modern astronomy. He is best known for his astronomical theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric or Sun-centered...