Visual communications
The visual Web and implications for how we communicate visually
By Richard Binhammer
- The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has acquired a group of 3,500 historic images from dozens of Caribbean islands in a cache believed by the museum to be the largest and most substantial collection …
- Andrew explains how he goes about evaluating photographers and placing them to museum, libraries, and collectors.
- Among the artists in the show, 15 are photographers or artists/filmmakers whose work incorporates photographic images
- In a contemporary world filled with annoyingly perfect food images, Core’s Oldenburgs feel like a timely corrective. Their authentically muddled disorder is a return to winking subversive playfulness, …
- “The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike.” That was Moholy-Nagy’s prophecy in 1932, and what is startling about it is not only its accuracy but our persistent …
- As a crucial evolutionary sense that underscores a large part of human culture, visual processing has directed the development of human culture. Visual expression has imbued the cultural landscape of …
- we can never know what another person sees, a conundrum that has also baffled philosophers and continues to occupy scientific research today. While most of us take vision for granted as an unconscious …
- Why did Stalin airbrush those people out of those photographs?” he asked. “Why go to the trouble? It’s because there is something very, very powerful about the visual image. If you change the image, y …
- Leaving aside for a moment anxieties about photography’s meaning in the social media age, one could argue from this evidence that it is the medium of our time, not just defining our globally connected …
- PDN asked respected photo book designers to explain their process for creating visual narratives,
- The obsessive recording of our lives even seems to affect how we experience and remember the world. We see more moments through the camera, and we spend even more time looking at our phones, watching …
- So now photography is the most powerful medium of visual communication. In fact today photographs touch our lives in many ways – they talk of a simple event, or evoke powerful emotions that even have …
- The key to visual literacy — and the goal of the class — is to interrogate these kinds of mechanisms, where we attach contexts and meanings to pictures, based on what they show and how they show it. T …
- According to the research, businesses can potentially unlock more than $167 billion in productivity by using visual content in employee communications. This includes screenshots, screencasts, images, …
- These images do more than tell stories of progress; they remind us of our shared humanity, of our responsibilities to one another. When you look at these photographs, don’t do so for merely a split se …
- Microsoft has unveiled its answer to Google Lens in the form of Bing visual search, which lets you take a snap from your phone and search for it on the web.
- But what type of visual should you use? It’s not enough to just throw a picture on a post and assume it will perform better; content marketers need to strategically determine which multimedia format w …
- what’s interesting are the alternative narratives that emerge through the photos
- A piece of visual content might have a high production value and a powerful story, but it won’t take off if it’s not a fit for your audience.
- 70% of marketers and creative professionals say their results are better when they use visuals.
- “These typefaces are ubiquitous, and they lend an air of legitimacy to whatever is being presented,”
- “Photography is a powerful form of visual expression, available to everyone. Most people have cameras and take pictures—lots of them. And many people frequently, even incessantly, use visual communica …
