Edward Tufte's Chapter 7 from Visual Explanations proposes a new genre of visual/verbal composition: the Visual Confection.

For this project, create such an image using Photoshop. Your confection should bring together words and images that visualize a complex set of ideas: an argument, a multifacited definition of a concept, a set of detailed choices, the cause-and-effect relations in a process, . This could be a set of ideas from your major, a book, an album of music (especially a "concept" album). Avoid creating a simple collage, which combines images in suggestive but diffusely intended ways. Instead, aim at producing what Tufte calls a "miniature theatre of information" that makes "reading and seeing and thinking identicial" (138, 151).

Your confection may include some supplemental text, but the explanatory weight should be carried mostly by the confection itself, which should be one (perhaps multifacited) image.

Resources and Examples:

• Radiohead's album cover for Hail to the Thief.
• Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
• Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Stages of Grief
• Examples of "concepts" might include Greg Ulmer's Theory of the Manifesto, or Hayden White's "Narrative of Discovery." It would be best to choose a concept that you know and find revealing. Something from your major would be ideal.