Conceptual or Pictorial Allusion
This section talks about designing without the structure of
a grid. In this excerpt, they want to show you how to convey your design though
ideas that the text is talking about. For instance, the books states, “text and images might sink underwater or
float around like objects caught in a flood. Even though no grid is present,
sequential compositions are given a kind of unity because of the governing
idea.”.
This type of structure is meant to give the reader the
feeling of what the words are saying without looking at an image after or
before you read the text.
"A personal narrative about a near-death incident begins with a
straight-forward column structure that is deconstructed in successive
studies to evoke the motion of flood waters and the desperate nature of
the situation."
Do you think the image is making you feel like the description of the story above?
I love the personal narrative, all the text is in a frenzy really displaying the panic of what the story is trying to convey. Text that is all over the place like that usually looks messy and dilutes the message but this one really grasps the emotions of the story successfully!
ReplyDeleteI find this very interesting! I think that it is amazing when you can create a feeling with type through the use of repetition,overlapping and size like in the second example. Although, I can't read it maybe it's not supposed to be read? But it creates an illusion and an interesting composition!
ReplyDeleteI can see an element that is being used in one way in #1 composition (top), and then later in #3 in a very different way (bottom). Look at the very square text blocks that run along the bottom edge in #1 - I see a series of light gray/white images that run above the text in #3. They are the same shape. SHAPE - that's what composition is all about.
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