Visual+Literacy


 * Visual literacy points out how, in this day-in-age, pictures within all media are key to our taking notice in something and keeping our interest. Since this is done so often (and can be seen everywhere), it is important to know how to best incorporate--as well as design images--in a way that best used to support what we are trying to get across, and keep it in the confines of what exactly we are trying to have people gain from our information. Though I have taken many a lesson on design, it was definitely interesting to read about how the media uses images, and how--even though I may not notice--these images are designed to affect me in some sort of way. I would probably use this in the future while 1. designing my classroom so that it feels like a comfortable environment, and 2. when designing a website (or other web creations) for my class.

=__**Visual Literacy**__= =Without knowing the background information about this table, my interpretation of the “chart” (if you will), is that someone is trying to inform people of how much McDonalds is consumed each year, as well as bring forward the issue of how many animals die each year just to feed our hunger wants. The positive aspects of the table are: a good job on making each category it showed different from the others so that people would know that each square was talking about different subjects. The bold numbers are also another aspect I liked about it because with numbers that large, it really sucks a person into wondering what those figures are all about. Now, for the negative aspects: I think a different title would be more appropriate—something about the numbers of animals slaughtered to feed our needs. If changed, I think it would make people want to take a look at it more intently. Secondly, I found the pictures around it to be a bit distracting and an eye sore. I think that if the pictures were embedded into the boxes (either above the numbers or below the statement), then the overall aesthetics would be way more pleasing. =