Roland Barthes, Image Music Text(1977)Vicious circle.
What I have read?
Barnard, M., Graphic design as communication.
Flusser, V.,The Shape of Things: a philosophy of design
Lefebvre, H., Critique of everyday life
Barthes., R., Image, Music, Text
Debord, G., On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the situationist international 1957-1972.
Benjamin, W., Illuminations
...et cetera.
Of course I didn't finish reading any of those books.
But I think I have a better sense now about what they are trying to teach us, and what I am here to learn.
I guess I can ask less stupid questions now.
I am still very shallow about everything though. But at least I am quite confident about the core value of graphic design.
It is about visual language.
It is about image making.
It is about making your image speak and understood.
This will be the most important and fundamental lesson I need to learn in this year (Maybe this is a BA lesson?). Before I get a hang of this, I don't think I should be thinking about anything else.
