Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
Visual rhetoric
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Visual rhetoric
Overview
“Rhetoric refers to the way we use language in a poetic, allegorical and symbolic way to embellish, persuade or delight with a speech. Just as the spoken and written word collects figures for this purpose, visual language does too. In this lesson I will show you some resources.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Visual rhetoric, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words. Explore narrative techniques and illustrative possibilities to tell amazing wordless stories in a clear and concise way .
Partial transcription of the video
“Visual Rhetoric In this lesson we’ll introduce ourselves to the subject of visual rhetoric. Surely you have heard an expression like "I'm dead asleep," but you are not actually dead, you are very tired. Or, similarly, "I'm very, very, very, very, happy." All those repetitions mean that you are really happy. All these expressions are part of what's called figures of speech. Rhetoric is the way we use language so that our speech is much more powerful, profound, intelligent, symbolic, and poetic. Likewise, as in oral language or in written language, we appropriate those figures of speech to be...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Paula Bossio
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, and children's book author who is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them... but above all, creating them. She has won national and international awards for her illustrations, including the Nami Award (Korea), the Noma Concours (Japan), and the A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem awards (Mexico), among others.
She has worked as an author and illustrator for publishers such as Penguin Random House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, and more, and has also worked as an illustration teacher in the Graphic Design Faculty of Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Areandina, and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá.
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