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Visual Communication Through Design And Art

Graphic designers and artists have been visually communicating for many years, their work has been made up from their own opinions and imagination, which they introduce socially by displaying their work – bearing their soul, this then leads to the work being structures of thought, interpretations made by critics and a source of discussion.

The visual nature of a piece of work is mostly what makes it culturally important, this is why images are so widely used to communicate a message – visual communication – images are a powerful way of communicating a point and are logical, most people would prefer to look at a image to receive a message instead of reading through page after page of information. 

The majority of images are visually pleasing too, hence why people enjoy to visit galleries and exhibitions as a past time, it is enjoyable and also in our culture it is a way which we are familiar with to receive information, the symbolism of visual communication is predominantly social. 

Clear Navigation

Most user interactyions with Web pages involve navigating hypertext links between documents.  The main interface problem in websites is the lack of sense of where you are within the local organisation of information. 

Clear, consistant icons, graphic identity schemes and graphic or text based information and summary screens can give the user confidence that they can find what they are looking for without wasting their time.

The user should always be able to return easily to your home page and to other major navigation points in the site.  These basic links should be present and in consistenet locations on every page.  Graphic buttons will provide basic navigation links and create a graphic identity that tells users they are within the site domain.