USING IMAGES AS TEXT
ARTS 210 – GRAPHIC DESIGN I
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY (SUNY)
HARPUR COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
How can an image be arranged like type, into words, lines, columns and grids? This exercise invited the students to think abstractly about both image and type. Their goal was to create two new visual texts by mining lines, shapes, and textures from the two larger images provided. Student had to create two separate solutions (one for each of the two images assigned).
By doing so, typography will be experienced in terms of blocks of graphic tone and texture that are framed by margins and gutters of the page. Different densities of texture will suggest different hierarchies. Headlines, captions, quotations, lists, illustrations, and other material will take shape in relation to bodies of running text.
Students had to include titles, subtitles and copy text in their solutions, as well as adding cropped images. Their goal was to create and show distinct hierarchy and at the same time treat the images as text.
Below are the two images that were assigned to the students. Both images are from Diderot’s Encyclopedia. I do not have any rights for the two images used in this concept layouts. This is an exercise created for the needs of an introductory course to Graphic Design.
* Original concept is from the book Graphic Design The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips.
Work below by: Emily Lin, Kelly Ayala, Aoshen Chung, Teja Clayman, Jack Goosman, Ya Min Lin, Gabriella Arreaga , Alex S. Harris, Douglas Laura
