[Sigia-l] Visual Balance Question

[Brett-Luxaco]

I think Donna's reply was correct and oh yes, I do know that Hierarchy isn't
a buzz word, and as a visual designer I didn't need to be taught the word
"Visual Hierarchy" to understand what level of important is, some things are
just intuitive to certain groups of people!

But more to the point, I do think Donna's point about the fact that we all
come from different backgrounds should be embraced, we all can surely learn
from each other.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna M. Fritzsche" <donnamarie at amichi.info>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>; "Andrew McNaughton" <andrew at scoop.co.nz>;
"Brett-Luxaco" <brett at luxaco.com>
Cc: "James Spahr" <james at spahr.org>; "Dave Collins"
<DCollins at phoenix-interactive.com>; <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Visual Balance Question


> At 2:56 AM +1300 12/6/03, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> >On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Brett-Luxaco wrote:
> >
> >>  Nicely put, people give way too much importance on the newest buzz
words.
> >
> >'Hierarchy' is hardly a recent buzz-word.  It's meaning is unusually well
> >defined, given it's connections to scientific formalisms.
>
> I think that Brett's post points out something that happens on our
> list often- one person's well-established term appears as a buzz word
> to another person, because we all have different backgrounds!  In my
> opinion, the fact that we all have different backgrounds is a
> strength of this group, not a weakness.  As James attempts to do in
> his class, I think we should strive for communication and
> understanding of the underlying concepts.  Words are just words - its
> the meaning behind them that matters.   Because of our
> multi-discplinarian makeup, we will never agree on terms completely.
> I think we should work on successful communication beyond the words,
> and realize that the words you learned in your discipline might not
> be the words that someone else learned to use for the same concept.
> Thats not to say that one discipline does not have a significant body
> of knowledge to teach the other discipline - I think there is alot of
> sharing to be done multidirectionally.
>
>
> >I'm not sure exactly what's being tought here,
>
> I believe the topic was visual hierarchy - which I find fascinating -
> some overlap with, but different then classification hierarchy.   To
> repeat  James definition:
>
>    "In reality, the visual plane is rich with ways to raise the
> importance or reduce the impact of any given element. Size is but one
> tool at the designer's disposal -- and sometimes it is more crucial
> to manage your imagery is than your type in regards to the the
> "visual hierarchy""
>
> Given that that Brett (whose post implied that this term might be a
> buzz word) is any outstanding visual artist, I know that he
> intuitively knows what this word means - he just hasn't heard it in
> this context!  I think that speaks well to James original point.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Donna
>
> >but if classification
> >enters the picture, and hierarchy is not a well understood concept and
> >equally well understood descriptive term, then something is seriously
> >wrong.
> >
> >Andrew McNaughton
> >
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