Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
VEILS OF COLORED TEXTURE
and transparent type—running in two directions—evoke the veil
of Arabic culture and reference that language's reading direction in contrast to that of Western
reading.
Leonardo Sonnoli
Italy
Visual Relationships Between Words and Pictures
Getting type to interact with im-
agery poses a serious problem for many designers. The results of poorly integrated type
and image fall into two categories. The first category includes type that has nothing in
common with the images around it or is completely separated from the image areas.
The second category includes typography that has been so aggressively integrated with
image that it becomes an illegible mass of shape and texture. Images are composed
of lights and darks, linear motion and volume, contours, and open or closed spaces, ar-
ranged in a particular order. Type shares these same attributes. It is composed of lights
and darks, linear and volumetric forms, and contours and rhythms of open and closed
spaces, also arranged in a particular order. The task is finding where the specific attrib-
utes of both come together.
