Electronic Media has moved beyond combining audio with moving pictures as the most highly developed form of communication. Visual Communication is the term that envelops all of the technologies now in use to communicate to the public with the use of images and sound. The Internet has provided a platform for many new manifestations of Visual Communication that far surpass a film or video clip.
Web pages allow for the combination of still pictures, multimedia, animated motion and an unrestrained mix of audio combinations that has produced a remarkable array of newly honed Methods of Communication. While you, the recipient of the communication are still merely staring at a screen, you are receiving a polyglot of audio/video/graphics combinations served up by an assortment of computerized tools.
Visual Communication is a catchall phrase for the methodologies that have caused the Internet to evolve into a highly sophisticated Sales and Communications Tool, unfettered by time constraints or the choice of a single electronic type of messaging.
Degrees for Visual Communications Professionals
Associates in Information Technology/Internet
Bachelors in Animation and Multimedia
Bachelors in Web Development/Software
Bachelors in Graphic Arts
Certificates in Web Design
Median Annual Salaries in Visual Communications
Creative Director/Agency
$77,500
Web Producer
$61,000
Art Directors
$63,840
Multimedia Artists/Animators
$50,360
Web Designer
$48,990
Sources: Salary.Com, U.S. Dept. Labor, American Inst. of Graphic Arts
