Re: From abstract to concrete visual representations

Deborah Taylor-Pearce sent: Thu 8/28/2008 3:37 PM
> Well, here's a test of this particular tool's cross-disciplinary
>?usefulness: what happens if those of you who work with signage and
>?know the genre well adapt the "The Big Triangle" for it, instead of
>?comics....?
>
>?Or how about type? Can we plot typefaces in a similar manner?
>
>??And if so, is it a helpful way of organizing our thinking about what
>?it is we do, and how we might do it better?
>
>??In other words, is it a good heuristic for professionals other than
>?comics artists?

The point of the triangle, or at least Scott's point for the triangle, is about how we regard images of human beings. His claim can be oversimplified as left corner is seen as particular, thus another person, the right corner is all people, thus plausibly me, like me, or whatever I'd like to project, and the apex is more about drawing and less about people.

One could plot a graph of typeface features but these aspects are irrelevant to type classification. Scott's theory is based on how we relate to images of people so would only be directly applicable to representations of people. The idea could be applicable to ideas of particular vs. broad in other representations but his basic emotional point only matters when applied to an image of a person.

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