I have recently been asking many questions about my own theory’s on design and the connotations of image, so i have decided to record all of these on my blog hopefully people will find them interesting. More than anything i hope to gain responses and maybe even start debates on the meaning of image.
If Weston culture’s standers of meaning states the larger the word the more emphasis should be placed on it, why is it then that often the most important things are said in hushed tones? So in the case of showing verbal emotion in the form the written word should a whisper be larger than a scream? On the other hand a scream creates a larger distortion in the audio atmosphere surrounding it, so no wonder its presence distorts the visual space on a page.
If this is the case though words are displayed in a linear 2D order so therefor how can a large word show the effect a scream has on the layers of noise in a 3D dimension. What i am trying to say is, should the way of emphasizing the emotions that verbal communication conveys in the in written form for example a book, base the size of the type on the importance of the words themselves as when important words are spoken they are just as griping as a word spoken loudly. The only difference being an important word dose not startle the receiver in the sense to physically make them jump.
Is there room for new ways of thinking after century’s of reinforced visual language, or can exploring the way in which we represent the spoken word unearth new ways in which to communicate to people on a global level, rather than just within our western cultures.
