Reading images : the grammar of visual design / Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen.

By: Kress, Gunther RContributor(s): Van Leeuwen, Theo, 1947-Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 291 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 0415319145 (hbk); 9780415319140 (hbk); 0415319153 (pbk.); 9780415319157 (pbk.); 0203619722 (e-book); 9780203619728 (e-book)Subject(s): Communication in designDDC classification: 701 LOC classification: NK1510 | .K64 2006Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social constructs -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Modality: designing models of reality -- The meaning of composition -- Materiality and meaning -- The third dimension -- Colourful thoughts (a postscript).
Review: "Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social constructs -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Modality: designing models of reality -- The meaning of composition -- Materiality and meaning -- The third dimension -- Colourful thoughts (a postscript).

"Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts."--BOOK JACKET.

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