Notes from Class 3/22

Verbal pun- play on words

Visual pun- play on imagery

Examples: Its raining cats and dogs

Feel free to check out the book: "Visual Pun in Graphic Design" by a professor at FIT named Eli Kince

-substitution (all or part) of an image
-combining images
-manipulation (use images from letters) example: cOOl (use wheels as two O's)

A rebus is a kind of work puzzle that uses pictures to represent words...example:



The examples we saw in class consisted of the Old/Young ladies or the Vase/ Face images

CHECK OUT:
-spy magazine (from the 80's)
-Tibor Calman
-Alex Isley
-Chermayeff & Geismar "Designing"

** A Visceral reaction- an "AH!" reaction from a person when they see something such as an iron on a tongue

See Assignment- Next class= visual pun thumbnails