Sfudying Graphics, Messages, and Symbols

To study what makes graphics and text become messages, we have to study symbols; Symbols are human made products or behaviors, which can deliver meanings to people. Codes are systems which define the relations between symbols, and the working relations between symbols and symbols are semiotics. Semiotics is a culture research tool; it has some difference between the traditional critic ways. The traditional critic ways talk about the inner interpretation of the meanings of text but semiotics talks about how the meanings are made and created in the graphic and text. In addition, semiotic uses denotation and connotation to explains, express and referrer to the details of the images.

The denotation of the Time magazine, the cover photo is the back of a pasty, white, bald head with a plugged-in cord at the nape of his neck. The cover used the same tone of colors. Mainly used light grey color, skin color and a bit darker grey from the background but the cover still used some others colors such as dark blue, black, metal sliver and light green. Also Time magazine still used the same red as their icon color. The cover page used more like a round shape letter for the title of the cover but Time keep the same shape of their name. As well as on the top of the cover keeps the round shape for the bold letters however the non-bolded letter tend to use times new roman letter. The human head covered two-thirds of the page. Besides that, the title and the name of the magazine both cover one-fourth of the page and the subtitle covered one-tenth of the page as well. The texture of the magazine cover is very smooth and round. By reading the title “2045 The Year Man Becomes Immortal*” and “*if you believe humans and machines will become one. Welcome ...

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...ing a new born. Additionally, we can scan our conscious nesses into computers and enter a virtual existence or swap our bodies for immortal robots and light out for the edges of space as intergalactic. Within a matter of centuries, human intelligence will have re-engineered and saturated all the matter in the universe.

Under the affection of semiotics, pictures are looked as symbols systems or codes which need to be decoded. The images of pictures not only describe objects but also deliver some specific meanings of messages. I think the point of view of the research theory could touch the feelings and meanings from the series of picture. The meanings are created by the process of the audience involving and interpretation and the theory is the media to do the research. This essay starts from the special relationship of text and graphics with creative interpretation.