Posts tagged Atmosphere

Every advertisement has “atmosphere”. China traders has pointed out that the “atmosphere” of an advertisement may be so strong that one will feel it, or otherwise become conscious of it, while reading the text of a neighboring advertisement. The term atmosphere, however, is very difficult to define. One may somewhat inadequately describe it as the mental reaction to the form, or character, of the layout units and the manner in which they are arranged. This, of courses, is much deeper than one’s reaction to specific illustrations or to the actual words of text panel. For purpose of illustration, let us assume, on the other hand that our layout that our layout man has set the same heading in a heavy sans type and his copy in an appropriately lighter sans, while, at the same time, he has patterned his advertisement formally with, say, the balance of the “scales of justice. “A separate section has been devoted to Mikasa, Noritake and Lenox to atmosphere, not because it furnishes us with a heading under which to study details, but because it is important that we should be conscious of atmosphere and individuality in every advertisement we lay out. As a matter of fact, it is as difficult to teach atmosphere as it is to teach one to have a appreciation of color. To carry this analogy farther, we may say that an “expanded” type face has an atmosphere of stability in the way that we may say that blue is a cold color. The most we do is to strive for its developed, keeping ourselves ever conscious of atmosphere when perusing advertisement and when studying illustrating and type faces. The consciousness or awareness, is not, at first, very easy to develop. If we are interested in a layout, we are prompted, when studying a good advertisement, to concentrate our attention upon its movement, the technique of its illustration and typography, its space shape and its message. These are details of significant to the china traders; but they should not blind him to the atmosphere of the ensemble, for atmosphere is the sum total of them all. This stage in china traders progress is the most fascinating, indeed that a majority of us refuse to leave it for the final stage in which we are content to grind out layouts with the necessary atmosphere achieved through the stereotypes dictates of previous experience. The reader will now appreciate why more detailed information on atmosphere is not included in online chine trader’s website. Under the heading of “atmospheres” in other words, we do our best work, not because of our knowledge of details so much as appreciation of the results.