Image and text

Text with an image can help the viewer better understand what the image means! Adding text to an otherwise normal image makes the image have sense and suddenly becomes clearer for everyone to understand. Writing can be used to help the viewer understand the topic within the image or otherwise it may be used to tell the viewer the name of the subject or objects inside of the image.

This image is a photograph of a white cat lying on a brown carpet appearing to be touching with its paw some sort of orange glow. Without the text the viewer would not be able to admire it in the right context. With the text it brings a whole new funnier meaning, as it says 'This is what laser pointers are good for', this now makes the viewer imagine what is actually taking place and this is that possibly the cats's owner is playing with a laser pointing at the floor as a toy to amuse the cat so it can play. This is just one example of how text can change an image. 

This is another example of text making the image have humour. At first glance you see a little baby kissing a cute pig at a farm with a funny expression which seems completely innocent, when the text is added on it gives the image a less innocent and more adult context talking about how the 'Bacon not done yet' is the pig being to raw or 'alive' for the baby's liking. Having text on an image definitely can change the meaning of any image from funny or sad depending on the purpose of the creator.

It is all about production!

FIRST EVER BOOK PRODUCED IN EUROPE: This was done by Johannes Gutenberg c. 1398 – February 3, 1468) he was a German man, who worked as a blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher who probably introduced movable type to Europe, and is likely to have developed the earliest European printing press. He started the Printing Revolution,and this is regarded as the most important event of the modern period

The methods used for the printing and binding of books continued fundamentally unchanged from the 15th century into the early years of the 20th century. While there was more mechanization, Gutenberg would have had no difficulty in understanding the new and improved printers of the 1900's.

Gutenberg's invention was the use of movable metal types, assembled into words, lines, and pages and then printed by letterpress. In letterpress printing ink is spread onto the tops of raised metal type, and is transferred onto a sheet of paper which is pressed against the type. Between 1450 and 1455, Gutenberg printed several texts.

MY FAVOURITE VISUAL EXPERT IS: When I was younger my grandpa told me about Aldous Huxley who was a very highly regarded man. Becoming nearly blind in his teenage years as the result of an illness this set the stage for what would make him one of the most intellectual people to have ever explored visual communication.. When Huxley was 16 and a student at Eton, a terrible  eye  illness made him nearly blind. He recovered with enough vision to go on to Oxford  University and graduate with Honor's, but not enough to fight in World War I, an important experience for many of his friends, or to do the scientific work he had dreamed of which I believe was a big shame for him. Scientific ideas remained with him, however, and he used them in many of his books, particularly Brave New World. The idea of vision also remained important to him; his early novels contain scenes that seem ideal for motion pictures, and so in result he later became a screenwriter.

 He described "seeing" as being the sum of sensing, selecting, and perceiving. One of his most famous quotes is "The more you see, the more you know." I find Huxley a very impressive and revolutionary man as even though he was nearly blind he still managed to graduate university with Honours, and establish himself by visualising  in his mind the stories and screenplays he wrote.