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August 20, 2005
What goes around comes around
Well-known fact in comp/rhet circles: teachers of visual rhetoric strive to impart the notion that images are more than ornamentation of print. Images are more, even, than an illustration of what is said in print. Images themselves speak, and the interrelationships of image and word are rich, indeed.
Hilarious and wonderful, then, to find a teacher of graphic design working the flip side:
I have always tried, and urged my students to try, to think of writing as more than a mere accompaniment to graphic design. Rather, it is perhaps its most deeply resonant evocation: the degree to which language can imply, conjure, suggest, describe, imagine, tease, amplify or otherwise evoke a design idea is, to a great extent, one of the more compelling ways of making design accessible to the public.
& hooray! I just finished a good draft of the visual rhetoric chapter for the handbook.
Posted by senioritis at August 20, 2005 06:40 PM