Communication is a large field to cover. The same goes for Visual Communication, the one of two main branches of communication. The other branch is Verbal Communication. Because of the vastness I will only cover a small amount of what it is.
What is Visual Communication?
Images are used to persuade, entertain, inform and to enlighten the people of a product, idea and/or message. It’s any information that can be read or looked at. That also includes body language. For you can only see the body, not hear it. But there are also the signs, posters, websites, drawings, photographs and television ads that people see on a daily basis. Those things will pump out a message every day if the people in vicinity see them.
This is also the main reason why visual communication is the most effective form of getting the message across. The rationality to why this form of communication is so effective is because people tend to get more information from sight alone. There are also various types of technology and software that is used to create artistic images and text that can easily communicate to the public.
Visual Communication relies on:
- Communication
- Videos/Pictures
- Visual Signals
- Motion, gestures
- Body language
- Eye contact
- Artwork
- Charts
- Graphs
- And many other factors
Education
Visual communication is something a person needs to have a degree in. Do not listen to those that say you don’t. There might be some cases where people got jobs without a degree in but that is not done much today. For companies today are looking for people with degrees. And a person with the degree will get the job over someone who does not have one. So getting a degree is important if you wish to get one of the many job fields that are part of communication world.
With this brief amount of information in hand, hopefully you can get the grasp of what visual communication is. For if you can understand what visual communication is then you can be successful in many areas other than job fields that pump out the images.
