Image and Word

       In author Brian Fie’s speech he mentioned about how he became a comic book artist and the thoughts he put into the two comic books he made, Mother’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow. In his speech, one thing that I remember the most is he talking about the relationship between image and word which are the two important elements to comic. AS he says, for comic, the combination of image and words helps people to get themselves involved in the story better. And I remember he talked about the way which people memorize things and communicate with the world that in our minds, we store memories in a way just as comics, brief and efficient. Therefore, the most efficient way to connect people’s mind is to use the combination of image and word.  

       As Brian said, image itself can be a beautiful art, and word itself can be a fantastic work as a poem, but the combination of them makes a story even better. To design, interaction is important. How to make efficient connection with people through the designed object that they can understand the designers ideas is one important concern of the designers. The combination of image and word makes the connection efficient, therefore it can be seen as an important element to design. As a designer, we have to keep one thing in mind which is how we can make a design obvious and simple to the user that it is not confusing that people can easily get into the interaction process we expect them to enjoy without thinking. And by applying the combination of image and word can help achieve the efficient connection.    


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