Visual vs. Symbolic Langauge

Hunger

Dirty clothes, mom and children, tired, thirsty, unwashed faces, disheveled hair

The woman is a mother of two children who were buried their faces into their mother’s each shoulder. The children might be crying or whining for their hunger, but the mother just stares somewhere with worried face. She and her children might be waiting for their father in hopes of getting a job or bring some foods at least for their another day.This image reports that unemployment of parents could make their children hunger and cold. They ignores and hides their hunger by not looking at something where their mother is staring at. 

Visual Thinking Research

To solve this puzzel with my family, we tried to see these dots from another view point because when we just tried to find squares at the first glance, it was difficult to find squares in different size of squares that we couldn't find the larger two squares until we found the answer. When we are able to see those last squares, we realized that we have learned that "visual-spatial operation that are required a strong sense of body orientation (McKim 17)." In other words, we finally got the puzzel solved when we separate the size of squares and we sense a different direction of squares.

French designer Alexandre Moronnoz designed a dynamic and fluid bench named it as Muscle Bench. "The bench offers the possibility of sitting or lying down in response to the surface's relief." I chose this picture of bench which I think that this is related to feature channels and visual search and to my planned major course of study (product design) because this offers "the possibility" where is similar to my field that creates "the possibility" in our environment for better life style. The patterns of its surface make and give a "relief" to people who want more creative, and also comfortable products that we can share with our family. 

This picture can be found at http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/rjj/tag/industrial-design/

This image is an example of Top-Down Visual Processing that create “our mind then fills in the boundaries of the square to separate it from the white background to the point where we are able to discern boundary lines that are not actually there.” The image is related to my field of study where I create an edge that make a huge white square with those dots. The edges created in the figure by those dots are a somewhat similar to my area of study when I come up with an idea on object, I try to bring something up that I can not see in there (which there is no actually edges in the figure). I found this image from http://mozglubov.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-down-processing-in-visual.html