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Designing With Images: Using A Realism Continuum To Choose Pictures For Communication Tasks, Stuart Medley
Designing With Images: Using A Realism Continuum To Choose Pictures For Communication Tasks, Stuart Medley
Research outputs 2013
Graphic design has historically been concerned with giving identity to clients’ projects. But what of its own identity? Graphic design and typography have become interchangeable terms, to the detriment of any theoretical position on pictures. This paper explains the necessity of a theory of pictures specific to the graphic design discipline. Bamford (2003) says there can’t be a vocabulary of images since it would be as limitless as the imagination and graphic skills of humanity. But a search for a vocabulary of images is a red herring for graphic design. Typography is less about what is spoken and more about …