Design For Quality » Visual Communication http://www.designforquality.com Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Design, Writing And The Media http://www.designforquality.com/2008/12/design-writing-and-the-media/ http://www.designforquality.com/2008/12/design-writing-and-the-media/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:45:35 +0000 admin http://www.designforquality.com/?p=49 In the world of writing and the media, objects of design and design works have created opportunities for the construction of books and essays and developed the use of verbal as well as visual communication. This not only being the actual writing itself but the punctuation which comes with pieces of writing e.g. paragraphs, symbols, pauses, silences, comma’s, question marks, brackets, visual signs all relate back to design in some aspect even though they are part of verbal communication.

Writers verbally communicate using a typeface that was once designed in order for them to be able to write, the entire processes of visual and verbal communication link in together and compliment each other, different grids, typefaces and symbols in a piece of writing are important for their formal qualities but also play a symbolic role and help us to regulate our interpretation of the text as we read.

All of these aspects used in verbal communication have been produced by a designer to visually communicate within everything from magazines, books, journals, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and as the development of design and types of media used continues to progress, these graphic symbols are also being seen on corporate images, posters, television and the internet. 

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