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Timeline Process

history of the bathing suit - final timeline

type and image reading

Communication creates shared understanding among people //grounding (shared understanding) is necessary for communication

Graphic design doesn’t always need to be a quest for new / never seen that before

Design

- assumes its audience has a previous understanding of its vocabulary.

- conveys information based on the audience and its understanding.

• Denotation (seeing)
• Connotation (interpreting)
  

CONCEPTS // ideas in context // how you are visualizing the idea

they are bearers of meaning as opposed to agents of meaning // one concept can be expressed by any number of languages (ex. The concept of a dog can be expressed in many languages but they all represent the same thing)

Because concepts are independent of language makes multiple translations possible

{ ways to transform images to visual ideas }

alteration

This book is about a fictional man Zeno and its full of his memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Because the name of the book "Zeno's Conscience" could go either way (praising his conscious or saying he is crazy) the scribbles over the mans face indicate instantly the man is crazy.

exaggeration

combination

analogy metaphor similie used to draw attention to similarities and parallels between different things

similie // one thing is like another "like" or "as"

metaphor // speak figuratively to describe something; to speak as if one thing is another thing

pun // play on words

this book "Breaking into Print" contains writers and their "breakthrough" writing. The collection of their breakthroughs in their careers is shown literally by the book being broken into.

analogy // used when we are trying to explain something complex by using something familiar

in this bookcover they are comparing the feeling of something valuable being taken (painting stolen from a museum) to having someone being taken from you in a relationship sense.

separation : type ignoring convention of reading left to right top to bottom

fusion : image working with type

fragmentation : image being displaced by type

inversion : type as image

final biodiesel mark and poster

refining my timeline idea

instead of having the text fill the spaces between the dates im going to use simple transparencies to indicate coverage. I need to figure out the spaces between the dates and then fill it with transparencies. Darker = more coverage, lighter = less coverage. Im going to try to make it clean and waterlike using helvetica type. I want to print on the epson so im going to aim for 22 in wide.
the problem im having with the timeline is the gap between the first date 50,000 bc and that most of the other dates are 1800's and 1900's. To show the distance of how long ago 50,000 was compared to the more current dates i was thinking about putting the line of waves on a curve and having 50,000 off in the distance small, then the 1900's (where most of the points are) would be large and in front. this solves the problem of showing the distance of how long ago 50,000 bc without the gap between taking up most of the page, and now the page can be focused on more current dates.

the dates go 50,000BC then 2000BC then 300 ad all the way up to the 2000's. Even though the dates are coming at a curve from the distance i want to make sure the distance from 2000BC to 0 and 0 to 2000 are about equal.

my process book for the book cover series

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