Rebus

Today at the VCT lectures we stared talking about Rebus and how it is a way to communicate an idea or a sentence using both images and text. I had seen rebus before but I did not know it was called this way. Rebus is to use a pictogram to represent a syllabic sound. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing that where found in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 b.C.

We had a look at Paul Rands and Allan Fletcher posters and discussed how rebus was used in the design field and how they used rebus in his work. They incorporated this form of communication to help their work become a stong piece.