Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter

图像超载:应对现代世界的视觉混乱

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-08-15

40 分钟
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Our lives are increasingly cluttered by images, not just in the world around us, but on advertising bill-boards, television screens, and even on our mobile phones. So how are we to process this barrage of information and make sense of the visual world? How can today’s designers help us and how are we to avoid image-overload? Bridget Kendall talks to three people who help us navigate the increasingly crowded world of visual imagery: Alan Kitching, one of the world’s foremost practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking, Aowen Jin, a Chinese-born artist who leads museum tours in the dark and Roma Agrawal, a structural engineer who spent six years designing London’s skyscraper The Shard. (Image: Edition Print, 2012 by Alan Kitching)
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  • Welcome to the forum from the BBC.

  • Hello, I'm Bridget Kendall.

  • Our lives are increasingly cluttered by images, not just in the world around us,

  • but on advertising billboards, television screens and even on our mobile phones.

  • So how are we to process this barrage of information and make sense of the visual world?

  • How can today's designers help us?

  • And how are we to avoid image overload?

  • With me in the forum studio are three very different visual practitioners.

  • Alan Kitchen is a groundbreaking British graphic designer,

  • a much admired and much imitated producer of letterpress typographic design.

  • Arwen Jin is a Chinese born British artist and commentator whose exhibitions and installations embrace modern technology to find new ways to pose challenging social questions.

  • And Roma Agrawal is a structural engineer originally from Mumbai in India who's part of the team responsible

  • for constructing one of London's newest landmark high-rise buildings known as the Shard.