Roland Barthes- relation to Graphic Design

After reading all through my notes and over Barthes' essay I can see where the relation to Graphic Design is. Being particularly interested in the advertising and branding side of Graphic Design this concept of text and image is something that will feature greatly in a lot of my work, for example right now I am working on preparation for an exhibition for 3D type. I have been given a topic of Blueberries to study and come up with one interesting fact and try and portray this fact by using the visual aid of type, however with a slight twist of being 3D. I have had several ideas of what I want to do but so far have had nothing I think that stands out well enough as just the text without the need for an image to support it. Because I believe that if used well in the right style and colour choice you should be able to get across your whole message using text alone. But this I think is also a great challenge, but if done well should work out to be very successful, and the same is to be said for an image being exhibited without the need for text. However in my particular filed the use of text without image is more common, and also the combination of the both is also a regular theme.

Hopefully if I read through my notes again I might get some inspiration for my type project and come up with a display made only from type and fingers crossed someone will be able to de-code my message and understand the my story or fact from just the one word, and no image.