Introduction
Hello and welcome to this blog. This is the learning log for my participation in the Visual Communications course provided by the Open College of the Arts. Visual Communications combines illustration and graphic design across many media to create meaningful art; images with a message. The internet, social media and the increasing power and availability of technology, such as cameras on smartphones and free or cheap image editing apps, has greatly increased our ability to both generate and read visual information. Increasingly, text is incomplete without accompanying images and videos and infographics are preferred over dense text as ways of presenting and consuming information. Therefore the need to communicate well visually is more important than ever. I hope that by engaging with this course I will become better at communicating meaning and messages visually. I hope to learn more about both illustration and graphic design, both by studying and by practice. I hope that I wi...