Type, Image and Message

Graphic design is not just a combination of beautiful photographs and text because these are just basic tools for designers to present ideas. Therefore, it will be nothing if the combination do not create any meaning no matter what how beautiful it is. In fact, image and text should be two incomplete parts so that they are completed each other perfect.
That is the challenge for designers to be playful with the combination of text and image. The position is also one of the important thing to think about because placing text and image in correct way can create meaning. There are four types for combination of text and image:

• Separation: type and image operate in dependently

• Fusion: type and image merge into one entity

• Fragmentation: type and image displace each other

• Inversion: type and image trade roles