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The eye and brain break up the visual world into various aspects such as…

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color, form, motion and depth

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Eyes take in what

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the stimuli. The brain makes sense of it.

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Vision is

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1 tenth physical and 9 tenths mental

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Perception is what

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limited and selective. We detect only a slim portion of the information around us. What we decide to see is determined by what we know, believe and want.

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Perception definition

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the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing sensory information.

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Visual Perception

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Gathering information through sight, organizing and making sense of it.

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2 parts of Perception

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  1. Making sense of it (tasks and mental shortcuts)

2. Judging what to focus on (selecting objects)

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Western countries focus on what

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objects

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Eastern countries focus on

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the spaces between objects

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Japan: the ma

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the intervening interval

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7 visual communication theories

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gestalt
semiotics
constructivism
ecological Theory
Cognitive Theory
Huxley/Lester Model
Omniphasism
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Gestalt

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The whole is greater than than the sum of its parts. Perceive parts/objects as whole. Primary, kicks in first. Form-forming capability of our senses. Grouping.

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Grouping

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Creates visual cohesion

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Grouping similarity takes into account what 4 aspects?

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size, value, color, and shape

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Grouping proximity

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Dominate all other grouping concepts. Spacial nearness.

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Grouping closure

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Pleasing to the brain. Fill in missing information to form an unfinished object.

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Grouping continuity

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Brain tends to form lines, follow what it perceives to be a path.

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Grouping figure-ground contrast

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differentiation between the object and the background.

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Philosophers associated with Gestalt theory

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Max Wertheimer- formal gestalt theory
Rudolf Arnheim- applied gestalt theory to interpretation of the visual arts. Also have to worry about the quality of the individual elements as well as the whole.

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Semiotics

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The science of signs. A symbol (something that stands for something else)

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C.S. Peirce

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Semiotic theory expert, “we think only in signs.”

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Ferdinand de Suassure

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Semiotic theory expert, “signs are divided into 2 parts.”

  • signifier
  • signified
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Icon

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resemblance. looks like or resembles what it stands for.

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Index

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cause and effect. Logically connected, can make sense of it.

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Symbol
convention, have to be taught it, no logical connection.
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Constructivism
Relating patterns of shape, visually arranging planes together. (Saccadic jumps our eyes make)
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Ecological Theory
Take into account the environment/real world setting. Lighting, depth, scale, etc. contribute to the visual communication.
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Cognitive Theory
Based on process in the brain like memory and comparison. Brain will seek out what is familiar based on experiences/memories that you already have. Went beyond the stimulus and made the best guess.
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Huxley-Lester Model
The more you know, the more you see. Sight and thought are inseparable. "Images have no use if the viewer's mind doesn't use them."
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Stages of Huxley-Lester Model
-Sensation -Selection -Perception sensing + slecting + percieving =seeing
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Omniphasism
"All in balance." Balancing the two primary cognitive systems: the rational and intuitive.
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Paleolithic man paints in cave walls (when and where)
25,000 BC Lascaux
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Cave iconography centers on 3 themes
- Animals (dominant images, scary animals are not shown as often) - Humans (people are not drawn as well as animals, stick figures) - Signs (often associated with animals)
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Cussac cave
Found in France, mostly etching, birds are present, sexual icons lots of bison and people.
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Catal Huyuk mural 6200 BC
Neolithic portrayal of active volcano
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Written language
Began in Africa created ideograms, then Sumerian clay tablets, then Egyptian hieroglyphics
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ideograms
pictures representing words
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Rosetta Stone
Had three different languages: - Egyption hieroglyphics - Egyption Demotic - Greek
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David Diringer: 4 historical stages of writing
- Iconography - Synthetic or Ideographic writing - Analytic or Transition Writing - Phonetic
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Synthetic or Ideographic writing
pictures used to tell a story, poem or epic, used to call something to mind
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Iconography
picture writing (cave drawings)
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Analytic or Transition Writing
picture becomes an accepted symbol of its name
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Phonetic
symbols representing oral sounds
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Visual processing cells account for...
30% of the brain cortex, | touch has 8% and hearing has 3%
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We receive __% of information through our eyes
80
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we process more info through our eyes than...
all other senses combined
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eyelid
protects and keeps cornea surface smooth by evenly spreading tears
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pupil
black opening in center of iris that regulates how much light gets let in
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sclera
white of the eye, the tough protective layer
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Iris
the colored part, regulates light by dilating and constricting the pupil
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camera lens=
cornea lens, vitreous (focuses the light)
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film=
retina (the surface on which the light rays are focused)
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dark room=
brain (images are processed)
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macula
small highly sensitive center of the retina (detailed central vision)
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Fovea
center of macula (sharpest vision)
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what area contains cones
macula/fovea (reading)
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what area contains rods
retina/peripheral retina (night vision, playing sports)
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right brain
space orientation, artistic
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left brain
analytical, logical, linear
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primary purpose of typography
facilitate, organize content in lucid manner
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primary colors
colors at their best essence | colors that cannot be created by mixing others
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tints
addition of white
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shade
add black
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secondary colors
combination of 2 primaries
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intermediate (tertiary colors)
primary and secondary combination
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rods
120 million rods are more sensitive than cones | good at sensing low level light but not color
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cones
gives us the ability to see color
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chroma
intensity of a color
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analogus colors
next to each other on the color wheel
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hue
interchangeable with the word color
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tone/value
lightness or darkness of a hue
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additive color
mixing of colors of light | when all are combined they create white
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subtractive color
mixing colors pigment | when all are combined they create black
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monochromatic color harmony
combining hues of a single color that have varying levels of value
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victoriansim
simple, feminism, ornamentation often shows up, floral typestyle
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Art's effect on graphic design photography
1880s photographs appear in print, photography changes fine art
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Photography takes the place of
realist art
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Impressionism
capture the impression by focusing on color and light
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Art Nouveau
curved, organic patterns, integrates type and art, lots of french women
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expressionism
raw, crude, primitive
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cubism
looking at multiple planes of the subject at the same time
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constructivism
intersecting geometric shapes and typography
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Dadaism
deliberate, irrational
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bauhaus
form follows function, simple, combining art and craft
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futurism
speed, movement, machine over nature
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de stijl
shape, geometry, Mondrian (looks like a newspaper front page)
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swiss style
lines disappear, clean, sans serif
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art deco
angles, lines, geometric elements
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surrealism
inspired by unconscious mind
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abstract expressionism
action, color, experimentation, emotion
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new realism
montage and multimedia
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what effect did photography have on art
allowed artists to experiment and break away from realistic art
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3 types of signs:
icon, index, and symbol. These signs are often blurred.
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photojournalism
the blending of a journalists and a photographer, telling a story through the images, seek the truth and stay objective - timeliness - objectivity - narrative
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
The father of photojournalism, the decisive moment
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photojournalism ethics
accurate representations, was it staged, was it just meant to shock, too gory, was it manipulated?
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Categorical imperative
what is acceptable for one person it should be acceptable for everyone
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utilitarianism
the greatest good for the greatest number
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hedonism
act to maximize pleasures now and not worry about the future. (whatever sells the most papers and makes the most money)
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Golden Mean
finding a middle a middle ground, a compromise between two things
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Golden rule
Do what you would like to be done to yourself
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Three levels of digital manipulation
Technical, accidental, essential
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Technical change
making slight adjustment, not related to content (making photo more readable)
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accidental change
a content change that has no effect on the meaning (took out the power lines behind ladies heads)
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essential change
changes the meaning of the photo (fictionalization)
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only change allowed in photojournalism
technical
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photo-fiction
applies to any photo that has been manipulated
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vail of ignorance
stepping someone else's shoes

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