Visual+Literacy

D. Assignment- After you familiarize yourself with visual literacy and visual design principles, it’s time for you to do some practice. Please use the visual design principles you have learned (PAT model) to criticize the following visual from your own perspective (about 200 – 300 words). Your critic should include 1) your interpretation of the visual message 2) the overall design in terms of PAT model (positive and negative), and 3) the improvement of the visual if there is any to enhance the effectiveness of convening the message to the audience. The message that they are trying to get across is that people generally consume too much protein. Although the setup is technically good, it gets your eyes focused on the words, the problem is that the words don’t make any sense. I’m not saying that it is incomprehensible, but they make the argument that we are “Overproteined” without saying what being “regularly proteined” would look like. So the best way to fix that would be to make a comparative argument of how much protein we need vs. what we have. Other than that everything looked good the colors were good and pictures were appropriate and appropriately placed.
 * Interpretation**
 * Design in terms**
 * Perception** –they obviously want to get the point across that too much protein is being consumed in all sorts of forms
 * Act**
 * Contrast** - No visible contrast
 * Repetition** - There was a little repetition in the word or concept of consuming.
 * Alignment** - There is alignment that is used in keeping the numbers in line and the “protein” words also are in alignment as seen in the space that is left underneath “127” to start at the same place as “chicken, big mac and hotdog”
 * Proximity** – There is some proximity in how the protein pictures go from top to bottom which attracts your eyes to the information in between.
 * Tools**
 * Space**- The space is used as I say above to get the eyes to focus on the words in between the pictures.
 * Shape**- This is a simple shape.
 * Improvement suggestions**

-- This had very little to with teaching students it more had to do with teaching us how to analize pictures the only way I feel I would use this in teaching would be I would use the knowledge i gained to set up posters and things in my classroom.