How to manage a controlled collision of type and imagery

Setting images into text mixes words’ straightforward communication with photos’ emotional implications. Words state; photos express. But conflicts result when the images get lost or the text becomes muddled. Or both. Images and text can successfully mix—if we follow some guidelines that balance readability in both text and images.

Read the full article I wrote at Webdesigner Depot.

Above: Turning block-shaped photos into text means cutting into the image. The more cuts made, the greater a chance for cutting out something important.