Visual Literacy: Image, Mind, and Reality

By Paul Messaris

Book Overview

Post-industrial humankind is inundated daily with visual images. Televisions transmit their blue haze into dark living rooms; advertisements and billboards bombard us at every turn; movies evoke... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813319374
• ISBN13: 9780813319377
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Good Introduction to Visual Communication for

An all in one book for those looking into learning a thing or two about visual communication. Covers areas like eye physiology, seeing, gestalt laws, seeing as a social construct and communicating with visual images. Illustrated throughout in black & white with a colour insert. The paperback version in particular is great value for money. Combine this with a good book on cognitive psychology (like "Cognitive psychology and its implications") and you know more than most of the graphic designers I know.