WK 5 Blog Exercise: Visual vs Symbolic Language

Unemployment in bold text, Waiting in line, looking through News papers for work, No hope, more people to jobs, outlook dual, people no jobs, no one is unique, no focus.

In this picture you a bunch of people standing in line but you can only see there outline with little detail on the person. Above them you have in Bold text like if someone had stamped across the page the word Unemployment. the back ground of the image is various news papers opened to their help wanted pages that have been given a dual spot light giving the effect of "old news".

WK 4: Visual Thinking Research - BLOG Exercise

 

The main strategy was to follow the blue line but it was much better to look at the negative space around to find that the spiral on the right is the correct one.

 
 

It was simple four point squares to find that there was 11 total blocks. 

Feature Hierarchy and Visual Search

 

The Designer used Color and Shape as the main visual search ques. The red color of the high lights on the buttons directs the users eye towards the user interface part of the device. Smooth face with a big circle in the middle that is one of the buttons. That gives the focus on the most important button. The visual layout of the radio is directed from left to right. Its simple and easy to use because these visual ques direct the user to each button by its function labeled in read. Most of the buttons have a second function labeled in white showing the importance of color in the design. The main display uses bright lights that give information to the user.

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Top-Down Visual Processing

When designing everyday objects like a vase or a lamp it is hard to provoke a second look. Here the designer worked in relation with the negative space around the object to provoke that sensation that there is something more. At first glance your eyes focus on only the brightest colors which is the white vase. Then when you look at it for awhile faces appear in the negative space. Which is intriguing to look at and may invoke interest in the piece. The image itself is designed so your eyes follow a certain path.