Words and images are both powerful representations in design. This is where literacy and design come together.

This photo is an image from Gunther Kress's paper on Reading Images; Multimodality, Representation and New Madia. I find this image to be a very powerful image and is very effective. Kress is a professor of Education/English at the institude of Educations, University of London. Multimodality links to oral, visual and written. Gunther Kress talks about this in his paper and the representation images and meaning they portray. He also looks at how different codes or signs can have different meanings by however the user wishes to use it. He talks about about how different social meanings are specific to a particular culture. To view more on what Gunther Kress has to say about image and design click the link below and have a good read as i think that there is alot more to deisgn than people think. http://www.knowledgepresentation.org/BuildingTheFuture/Kress2/Kress2.html

In relation to bebo students may choose an image for example this image below which most people see as peace or thats the context they view it in. However this may lead the student to becoming naive as in different cultures this can be viewed as warmonger where the presidents used as a sign of victory. Students need to become aware and taught the codes. Although students may be taking that design and re using it they must be aware of exsiting signs. They must be asked the questions what does this represent? How may i use it in a different context to make meaning.