DIFFERENT KINDS OF COMUNICATION
• Using words
• Music or sound
• Touch
• Visual
VISUAL COMUNICATION
• A visual language is a system of
communication using visual elements
• But, what is a visual element?
• There are different kinds of visual elements:
maps, symbols, signs, signals ,logos, gesture,
images, drawings, photography,…..
PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF IMAGES
Informative images describe about objects.
Maps or a graph
Comunicative images to tell people about a
product.
Expressive images comunicate feelings,
emotions and personals beliefs
Aesthetic images more priority to the beauty
VISUAL PERCEPTION
• Is the capture of stimuli through our shigt and
nervous system. We receive ligth impulses
with our eyes which are transformed into
images in our brain.
• Thanks to visual
images, we can
understand a variety
of messages and
information
PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
• The members of the Gestalt psychology school
in Germany created a series of principles on
how human perception is organised to help us
to understand forms in a global way:
1-Relationship between figure and background.
2-Law of good form
1-Relationship between figure and
background
The principle says that we can visualise the
figure and background at the same time.In the
process . In the process of perception, we
usually focus on the figure before looking at the
background
2-Law of good form
• The process of perception always looks for
the simplest or most consistent form of
organisation, and reduce possible ambiguities
or distorsions
Imágenes de distorsion y efectos
opticos
IMAGES
• An image is the
visible
appearance of
a person,
object or thing,
represented by
an expressive
form of art
ICONICITY AND ABSTRACTION
• The iconicity of an image means how similar
the image is to the object represented.
• Abstraction represents something in a
different way to reality.
DIFFERENT KIND OF IMAGES
• Still images. Photographs, painting, drawings,…
• Moving images. Television, film, digital
animation, multimedia
• Artistic (Realistic, abstact, surrealitistic,
symbolic,…
• Graphic desing. Logos, signals,….
• Digital images. Creates on a computer
• Publicity and advertising
Still images:
comics
Photograph
Photography
Moving
images
Artistcic images: surrealistic images
Realistic painting
Abstract painting
Fantastic images
Visual trick
Graphic desing: signals
signs or symbols
peace symbol
Digital images
Publicity and Advertising
• Advertising seeks to comunicate a message to
a large number of people using the mass
media (press, tv,….)
• Advertising is a message to persuade
consumers and users to demand a particular
product or service
MASS MEDIA
• Advanced industrial societies have develop
means of comunication. Internet, TV, radio,
magazines,..
• Many advertisements are made for sound
(audio) and image (visual).Spots
• Others only with images and text (graphic or
photography)
Advertisments
• Are messages used to inform, influence or
convince.
• The information is manipulated to provoke to
call the atention of the consumer
• Not all information is true
Diference between an artistic image and a
publicity image
PREVENTION CAMPAIGN
AGAINTS VIOLENCE OR ABUSE

visual communication

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    DIFFERENT KINDS OFCOMUNICATION • Using words • Music or sound • Touch • Visual
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    VISUAL COMUNICATION • Avisual language is a system of communication using visual elements • But, what is a visual element? • There are different kinds of visual elements: maps, symbols, signs, signals ,logos, gesture, images, drawings, photography,…..
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    PURPOSE AND FUNCTIONOF IMAGES Informative images describe about objects. Maps or a graph Comunicative images to tell people about a product. Expressive images comunicate feelings, emotions and personals beliefs Aesthetic images more priority to the beauty
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    VISUAL PERCEPTION • Isthe capture of stimuli through our shigt and nervous system. We receive ligth impulses with our eyes which are transformed into images in our brain. • Thanks to visual images, we can understand a variety of messages and information
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    PRINCIPLES OF VISUALPERCEPTION • The members of the Gestalt psychology school in Germany created a series of principles on how human perception is organised to help us to understand forms in a global way: 1-Relationship between figure and background. 2-Law of good form
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    1-Relationship between figureand background The principle says that we can visualise the figure and background at the same time.In the process . In the process of perception, we usually focus on the figure before looking at the background
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    2-Law of goodform • The process of perception always looks for the simplest or most consistent form of organisation, and reduce possible ambiguities or distorsions
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    Imágenes de distorsiony efectos opticos
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    IMAGES • An imageis the visible appearance of a person, object or thing, represented by an expressive form of art
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    ICONICITY AND ABSTRACTION •The iconicity of an image means how similar the image is to the object represented. • Abstraction represents something in a different way to reality.
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    DIFFERENT KIND OFIMAGES • Still images. Photographs, painting, drawings,… • Moving images. Television, film, digital animation, multimedia • Artistic (Realistic, abstact, surrealitistic, symbolic,… • Graphic desing. Logos, signals,…. • Digital images. Creates on a computer • Publicity and advertising
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    Publicity and Advertising •Advertising seeks to comunicate a message to a large number of people using the mass media (press, tv,….) • Advertising is a message to persuade consumers and users to demand a particular product or service
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    MASS MEDIA • Advancedindustrial societies have develop means of comunication. Internet, TV, radio, magazines,.. • Many advertisements are made for sound (audio) and image (visual).Spots • Others only with images and text (graphic or photography)
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    Advertisments • Are messagesused to inform, influence or convince. • The information is manipulated to provoke to call the atention of the consumer • Not all information is true
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    Diference between anartistic image and a publicity image
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