image and text

i think there is a lot of ways that image and text connect to each other. in the hand out it explained that by having one image, people could think alot of different things in their heads. the hand out used apple, but another example would be an orange. some one might thank the color. someone else might think the fruit. someone else might think the juice. someone else might even think "orange county" or whatever is brought to their head. just plain text can be boring, but when images are put with it, it becomes a lot more interesting. text and image have a lot in common.

Image and Text

The first relationship between image and text is called juxtaposition which is putting text on the bottom of a simple image that will put new meaning to the image. The second is a single-panel comic which is combining text and image to create an effect; funny or serious. The third is using text to tell a story of the image. The forth is using text to translate the image.

Image & Text

so basically what the reading was about is that if you take a symbol there can be many one work meanings to it. Just like the example of the apple and it had all those different meanings. the different kind of text you use can also effect the outcome of the picture. pictures can also have many meanings too. the text and images need to go together so it will make more sense. text and images are really important and they need to go together.

Image and Text

There are a few different kinds of relationships between word and text. One relationship is one picture, let's say a pair of sunglasses, and three different words describing the same picture but having different meanings. One word to describe them could be sunshine and two others could be fashion and accessory . You can relate all of these words to a pair of sunglasses but they all have different meanings. In other cases you might not need much text, the picture could say it all. Sometimes the image and the text can translate into totally different things. The image and text combination could result in something funny or something serious. Basically, the image and text support each other.

Relationship of Text and Image

The relationship of texts and images can mean multiple things. They interact with each other in numerous ways.
Some word texts and pictures actually connect. The text by the image could actually be what the image is. Or it could be something that seems completely irrelevant but it may have a more meaningful connection.
Text and Image combination can also be used for some humorous purposes. Like a cartoon: the image shows the event or happening in the cartoon and underneath or around it can be the caption. The caption texts serve as dialogue or lines of what the characters are saying or a satirical comedic comment.
The word bubbles are used in cartoon like images to have a spot for the texts that the character is saying. The text actually being in the image can create more of an impact on the reader. It can keep them more focused or understand the text's meaning easier, because the character in the image that the word bubble belongs to, shows expression that helps the mood or tone of the whole combination together.

This is my summary of the relationship between texts and images.

sketches

Visual Theme

http://www.quiznos.com/subsandwiches/

I chose the quiznos website because they have a good visual themed website. The three main colors are distributed throughout the page and the logo appears a lot.
they have good sandwiches too =]

Visual Themes

www.mcdonalds.com
this website has many visual themes. most of the site is red and yellow which is mcdonalds theme colors.

Visual Themes

http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.cat.3.htm
http://ma-nchester.freedownloadscenter.com/computer.html
^both of these sites include different themes for your computer

http://www.bk.com/#menu=1,-1,-1
^the colors of this site are the burger king colors along with the bk theme

visual sketch

I picked the gateway symbol because i like how the word is a color but the symbol above is just black and white. it looks cool how it almost looks like a cow and is in the shape of a cube.

www.gateway.com

Person Running

to the toilet

Car Speeding

gotcha

A Ball Dropping

on a bull dog's head

Visual Themes

ice theme

accad.osu.edu

paint splash theme


http://farm1.static.flickr.com


burger king

yellowrant.com or burgerking.com

subway

subway.com

Visual Themes

http://www.lightstar1.com/news.php

http://www.apple.com/


These are the web address of a visual themed site. Each has a constant theme that is easy on the eyes. they help hold the site together.

VIsual themes in a website

www.apple.com
apple dot come not only has a simple and nice visual theme throughout, it also corresponds with the look of their products!
the colors are all silver and white.

Visual Theme

http://www.apple.com/

I think that the visual theme at apple.com its simplicity and message are what gives it theme

www.fedex.com

fedex has a good visual theme with their logo. they use the same logo font and size, but the color is changed to show different areas of their company such as: air, ground, kinkos

visual theme site

www.wendys.com

Wendys' website actually has a very strong visual theme, particularly in the color scheme. Everything on the site pretty much follows the yellow/red theme found in the logo.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/welcome/index.jsp?WT.srch=1

this website has many themes because throughout the website the little at&t globe is found.

SKETCHYD

three in one. guy running shoots ball into movement. newspaper blows away from old man

Visual Theme

http://www22.verizon.com/residential/fiostv

Visual Themes Thing

Couple of links to some "interesting" visual themes.

This site is called DeviantArt. It's like a site where a bunch of people submit their own artworks and stuff, make friends, and comment/collect artworks. There's all types of artworks and I searched Visual Themes in the search bar so:
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows/visualstyle/#order=9&q=Visual+Themes
No membership is require to view submissions, but I think you need to be a member to post, comment or collect. I'm a member.

Themes for computers; you can download them. Seems more like wallpapers to me but . . . oh well, I may be wrong:
http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.cat.3.htm

This site is called Agrapha. The link leads to its porfolio page. It says you will find Agrapha's 'professional' stuff. The web designs section could be seen as visual themes for web sites I guess:
http://www.agrapha.com/webdesign02.html
It also talks about what to do in making these sort of stuff like about details, colors and etc.

This is from crystalxp.net and this image is just the same (sort of) design and visual theme but in 4 different colors: http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/img/img-visual-styles-4-vista-shellstyle-for-xp-sagorpirbd-9465.jpg

StudioTwentyEight's visual styles have some really cool looking ones. And they are up for download (and purchase) : http://www.studiotwentyeight.com/visualstyles.htm

All I got.

Website

http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/?order=9#order=9

This website has computer themes and some that may work for a book

(also iWeb for Macs has many different themes for blogs and other things)

web page with visual themes

Target has wonderful visual themes. the symbol is consistent throughout every page and the white and red colors are abundant throughout.

www.target.com

Visual Theme

First Themes that visually interested me (Simple but stylistic)

Second (Lists of interesting drawings and photos)

Third (Same as the second one)

Fourth (Samples of photobooks)

Sketches

Visual Themes

Check out this site with many visual themes on it by Karen Hatzigeorgiou done 2004-2008.

VISUAL THEMES


Here's a step-by-step "How to" entry by Bill on GoMediaZine to make graphic design in the style of comic books.

COMIC BOOK GRAPHIC DESIGN AS THEME

sketches

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Man Running

Heavy Lifting

Speeding Car