text × image playground
you either create a design element made of text or a graphic/an image. then see how it works in different combinations.
instructions:
- use this template,
- create your artwork – text or graphic/image
– within the given grid,
- save as jpg/png/gif, max: 2MB, dimensions: 297 × 420 pixel,
- specify on upload if it’s text or a graphic.
Please choose type!
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overview of all combinations
these combinations can be described as …
- “functions of the linguistic message with regard
to the (twofold) iconic message” (Barthes 1977)
- “visual/verbal rhetoric” (Bonsiepe 1965)
- “multimodality” (Bateman 2014; Bateman, Wildfeuer & Hiippala 2017)
references
- Barthes, R. (1977). Rhetoric of the Image. In S. Heath (Ed.), Image-Music-Text (pp. 152–163). London: Fontana Press. https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/cocu108/data/texts/barthes_rhetoric_of.pdf [17.11.2020]
- Bateman, J. A. (2014). Text and Image: A Critical Introduction to the Visual-Verbal Divide. London: Routledge.
- Bateman, J., Wildfeuer, J., & Hiippala, T. (2017). Multimodality: Foundations, Research and Analysis. A Problem-Oriented Introduction. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Bonsiepe, G. (1965). Visuell/verbale Rhetorik – Visual/verbal Rhetoric. Ulm, (14/15/16), 23–40. https://monoskop.org/images/0/01/Ulm_14-15-16.pdf [17.11.2020]