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Conceptual or Pictorial Allusion
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This technique uses text & design structures to create art, symbolism, ideas, & designs like paragraphs with justified alignment that are used to create a symbol to represent a feeling with little to no explanation or clarification; or four pieces of artworks with words & numbers to represent seasons of the year with their…
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Spontaneous Optical Composition (NOT RANDOM!!!)
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This technique is placement of elements based on seeing visual relationships & contrasts & making connections for viewers based on said relationships. This can both be used as an idea on its own, & be used to help build a grid. It can be compared to painting: It starts fat & loose with very…
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Grid Deconstruction
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This technique splits apart a grid into sections or “zones” that can be moved and realigned to create more interesting looking designs. Major zones can be “cut apart” & are shifted around to a different area either horizontally or vertically. When information that would normally appear in an expected place is placed somewhere else,…
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Exploring Other Options: Nonstructural Design Approaches
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Typography & design elements have been using grid structures for a long time, but in recent times there have been other ways to organize design elements in ways where grid structures can’t be used in order to reach a specific audience, when to use grids always depends on the nature of the content given.…
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How to Transfer Posts from one WordPress to Another
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1.) Go to your first WordPress 2.) Go to Tools>Export>Choose Posts>Download Export File 3.) Go to your other WordPress 4.) Go to Tools>Import>Choose the file that you downloaded
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Ever Metaphor?
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A metaphor is an expression that refers to an unrelated idea which creates additional meaning(For example: “The grass is always greener on the other side.”) Images are also used in the same way by being combined or transformed to suggest entirely new meanings to the images. Some metaphors draw from cultures and experiences are…
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Word & Image: Brainwashing the Narrative
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Words reshape images because when you add text to an image, it changes its meaning instantly. Some word-image pairs create semantic gaps that can either be small and similar or large and very different from each other. Just as words alter images, the inverse is also true because images can also reshape how we…
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Narrative Interplay
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One photo can deliver a huge amount of “semantic” content, and putting multiple photos together to tell a story. This also makes unrelated photos related by a narrative the viewer themselves put together, even making two different stories despite starting with the same image.
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Subject Alteration
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Altering photographs can enhance the message of the image, create a surreal effect to it, and can erase unwanted problems on an image supplied by a client. It could also create something new & unique to the table. Examples include filters, cropping, overlays, etc.
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Subject & Content
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The surrounding elements are just as important as the main primary subject of an image & how they interact with each other. Scenes deliver the important information about what they’re trying to tell the audience.