3 Points, 1 Question

-White states that there are four ways to approximate three-dimensional space in two dimensions: overlap elements, imply motion by blurring elements, use scale and visual hierarchy, and use perspective.

- Flower’s reading suggests “the function of a training manual is to tell someone how to do something; therefore a reader-based revision takes that function seriously and organizes information around the task the reader must perform.” Thus, another strategy for reader-based revisions is to “organize the text around the readers’ search for answers to those [practical] answers.”

-Kostelnick’s description of “flatman” was interesting. I did find it funny because I did not know that there was a formal name for the stick-figure; yet, always found that his presence helped me understand the concept of the visual better. Kostelnick states that flatman’s design typifies a “global (or universal) model of visual communication. Its advocates seek to find ways that visual language can bridge the cultural gaps that separate readers visually, largely by aiming to create a rational, objective, and culture-free design language or by defining the building blocks of such a language through empirical research.”

Please thoroughly describe was gestalt is and its relationship to the other six of the seven design components.