1. VISUAL COMMUNICATION

2. DIFFERENT KINDS OF COMUNICATION
• Using words
• Music or sound
• Touch
• Visual

3. VISUAL COMUNICATION
• A visual language is a system of
communication using visual elements
• But, what is a visual element?
• There are different kinds of visual elements:
maps, symbols, signs, signals ,logos, gesture,
images, drawings, photography,…..

5. PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF IMAGES
Informative images describe about objects.
Maps or a graph
Comunicative images to tell people about a
product.
Expressive images comunicate feelings,
emotions and personals beliefs
Aesthetic images more priority to the beauty

6. VISUAL PERCEPTION
• Is the capture of stimuli through our shigt and
nervous system. We receive ligth impulses
with our eyes which are transformed into
images in our brain.
• Thanks to visual
images, we can
understand a variety
of messages and
information

7. PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
• The members of the Gestalt psychology school
in Germany created a series of principles on
how human perception is organised to help us
to understand forms in a global way:
1-Relationship between figure and background.
2-Law of good form

8. 1-Relationship between figure and
background
The principle says that we can visualise the
figure and background at the same time.In the
process . In the process of perception, we
usually focus on the figure before looking at the
background

10. 2-Law of good form
• The process of perception always looks for
the simplest or most consistent form of
organisation, and reduce possible ambiguities
or distorsions

11. Imágenes de distorsion y efectos
opticos

15. IMAGES
• An image is the
visible
appearance of
a person,
object or thing,
represented by
an expressive
form of art

16. ICONICITY AND ABSTRACTION
• The iconicity of an image means how similar
the image is to the object represented.
• Abstraction represents something in a
different way to reality.

17. DIFFERENT KIND OF IMAGES
• Still images. Photographs, painting, drawings,…
• Moving images. Television, film, digital
animation, multimedia
• Artistic (Realistic, abstact, surrealitistic,
symbolic,…
• Graphic desing. Logos, signals,….
• Digital images. Creates on a computer
• Publicity and advertising

18. Still images:
comics

20. Photograph
Photography

21. Moving
images

22. Artistcic images: surrealistic images

23. Realistic painting

24. Abstract painting

25. Fantastic images

26. Visual trick

27. Graphic desing: signals

30. signs or symbols

31. peace symbol

32. Digital images

35. Publicity and Advertising
• Advertising seeks to comunicate a message to
a large number of people using the mass
media (press, tv,….)
• Advertising is a message to persuade
consumers and users to demand a particular
product or service

36. MASS MEDIA
• Advanced industrial societies have develop
means of comunication. Internet, TV, radio,
magazines,..
• Many advertisements are made for sound
(audio) and image (visual).Spots
• Others only with images and text (graphic or
photography)

37. Advertisments
• Are messages used to inform, influence or
convince.
• The information is manipulated to provoke to
call the atention of the consumer
• Not all information is true

38. Diference between an artistic image and a
publicity image

50. PREVENTION CAMPAIGN

51. AGAINTS VIOLENCE OR ABUSE