From the course: Storytelling for Designers

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Worth a thousand words?

Worth a thousand words?

From the course: Storytelling for Designers

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Worth a thousand words?

The old adage, a picture is worth 1000 words, might lead you to believe that just because you're working in pictures, you're automatically providing in a glance what writers could never achieve in a small space. Well that's not necessarily the case. Every picture does not tell a story. In this movie, we're going to talk about how you can add a layer of meaning to a design. Not just relying on the image to speak for itself. Here's an exaggerated example of the most boring storyless picture. If there ever was one. A drawing specimen for beginners demonstrating how to shade a cube. I suppose if you really forced it, you might be able to come up with a 1000 words for that cube. But it's unlikely that you'd come up with more than a cube casting a shadow. That cube sitting on a flat surface is what you might call a visual fact without a narrative explicitly present. Is there anything at stake? No. Is there any tension between opposing forces? No. But sometimes, all it takes to bring a…

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