Friday, December 9, 2011

Rhythm

Rhythm
Rhythm is the repetition or alternation of elements, often with defined
intervals between them.
Rhythm can create a sense of movement, and can establish pattern
and texture.
There are many different kinds of rhythm, often defined by the feeling it
evokes when looking at it.
Regular
A regular rhythm occurs when the intervals between the elements, and
often the elements themselves, are similar in size or length.

Flowing

A flowing rhythm gives a sense of movement, and is often more
organic in nature.
Progressive
A progressive rhythm shows a sequence of forms through a
progression of steps




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Hear Listen Sketch by Harry Diaz
















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Buamai by Buamai Curation

















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But Does It Float by Chewy

















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Kieler Woche Poster by Jean Widmer

















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Luminous Square XII by Jose Heerkes

















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Architechual Photography by Kim Holtermond

















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Dutch Packaging by Louis Swart

















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Mountain by Malte Gruhl

















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Sea Power by Mario Hugo

















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More Drawings by Oussay

















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Laissez La Mer Vaous Aider A respirer by Navartis Otrivin















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snowblinded by Alpina Luna

















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Wary Meyers by David Hockney


















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Zuckerman by Rachel Hulin









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Monday, October 10, 2011

Dominance

Dominance
Dominance relates to varying degrees of emphasis in design.
It determines the visual weight of a composition, establishes space and
perspective, and resolves where the eye goes first when looking at a design.
There are three stages of dominance, each relating to the weight of a particular
object within a composition.
Dominant
The object given the most visual weight. The element of primary emphasis that
advances to the foreground in the composition.
Sub-dominant
The element of secondary emphasis. The elements in the middle ground of
the composition.
Subordinate
The object given the least visual weight. The element of tertiary emphasis that
recedes to the background of the composition.

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Urban Growth
by Amy Shackleton

The organic tree forms has the most visual weight in this design. It would be considered dominant because of the taking up of space of the organic growth in the city.














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blood signal
by Marc

The design is dominance because of play in space and color. The visual weight of this piece actively travels to the bottom because it consist of a large quantity of the color red. The words are sub-dominant because in seeing the color and noticing the negative space between colors the word Blood appears. In other words that is the next visual thing your eye is drawn to.



















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27 May 2010
by David Benjamin Sherry

This photograph is sub-dominant because the focus or visual weight of the focal point is in the middle ground of the composition.











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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign 2011
by Estee Lauder

This pink building is dominant in this photograph because of the composition of the building overtaking the space of the scenery. Also, Color helps with the visual weight falling on the pink building to make the object more dominent.








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Exploded
by lucy and bart

The Dark shapes is overtaking the man in the photograph. The perspective of this photograph is the dominant object overtaking the space of the other objects. Also The composition of this piece is set in the middle almost so that may be another dominent reason.

















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The Moment When Ozone Disapears
by Marc

on the shirt created the focal point for this is the burnt graphic illustration because of the composition and quantity of the object compared to the picture of the back on the shirt.











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International Union for Conservation of Nation
by McCann World group

The subordinate object that was given the less weight in this photograph was the city in the frogs eye. It is subordinate because of it being or blending with the background.












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Monster Taco
by Bob Staake

The domenint object is the monster because of the composition. It is directly in the middle.















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Donuts
by Bob Staake

The donut is dominant because of where it was placed. The white space is subordinate because of the contrast and absence of color and it is in the middle ground.

















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skull: Marcando Calavera11
by RemembeR VictoRiosa

The dark textured side of the skull is dominent in this graphic because of the visual weight of that side of the object verses the smooth and shiny side of the skull.





















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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Balance

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Typeface Classification by Martin Plonka


This typographic design has a radial access point making it radial symmetrical. It is depicted as the pupil and the iris of an eye.












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Go Font Urself by Sydney Melbourne

The lines in the design are equally distributed. Go font yourself design is displayed symmetrically with an even line weight. This is a form of line art because it is a black and white design. There is no gray values shown throughout the piece.














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One by AndyStewart

This design was created using formal balance. Balance was portrayed by the contrast of values and the sizing of the lines. It may appear to be the number one on the right side of the piece but really thats because of the lines being heavily emphasized on the right. Really the display is two keys on top of each other.














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layered paper sculpture by Bianca Chang

The layered paper sculpture is radial balance. The elements seem to radiate out from the center the center in a circular fashion. Your eye is led to the middle of the design as a focal point because that is where everything appears to be coming out of.














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Contrabrand by Swiss Side

This design is asymmetrical design because the weight of the heads are unevenly distributed. You can tell by the nose of the character on the left being more slightly showing the the nose on the left of the character on the left.













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Contrabrand by Swiss Side

This photograph is evenly distributed in a symmetrical balance because of the color and the number of lines on the wheel.













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Contrabrand by Swiss Side

This is radial balance as the lines are distributed evenly on the Ferris wheel. The details are evenly distributed on each side. What makes it asymmetrical is the leaf that breaks the symmetrical order in its balanced form.













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Union symbol by Alastair Reid, managing director of Brighton-based Red Design.

The logo is centered. It is considered a symmetrical radial balance. The line weight is equally distributed. The "U" stands out because it is in the center and its line weight is emphasized my its thickness.












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Black Light by Shen Foo of Edinburgh-based H&A Marketing and Design.

The design is evenly placed in a diagonal view. It is distributed on two pages. It is radial balance because it focuses on the middle. The design is very circular.













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Bike by Normann

This photograph of a bike is displayed in an asymmetrical format. What throws the symmetry in this photo is the break line on the left side of the photo connected to the bike handle












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Logo by Martin Newcombe

The logo of the tool is asymmetrical. Although the end of the tool makes a perfectly symmetrical house shape. The handle is turned at the top creating the visual weight to fall on the right side just looking at the top.














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Chocolat Factory by ruiz+company

The photograph of the chocolate is very symmetrical as far as the placement of the chocolate but the color of the wrapping and its text makes the photograph asymmetrical.














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Happy Pills by Identidad

The photograph on the left is asymmetrical because of the placement of the text. The photograph on the right design is symmetrical because of the placement making a visual balance.














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Mas Romaní by Dorian

This photograph of the wine bottle is radial balance because the distribution of the design on the bottle. The colors and the details of the design creates a circular motion that leads your eye to the middle.













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WANKEN by Shelby White

The photograph of the scale is asymmetrical because of the visual weight leading your eye to the colors on the scale that leans more towards the right.












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Clothilde, ink on paper, 1998 (c) Ruth Marten

This design is symmetrical balance because not only can you fold the paper and the design will meet up evenly but the color distribution is evenly placed shadow and all.











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M i m é s i s by Sarah Garzoni

This photograph of this beautiful us asymmetrical. Even thought the colors and the design of the butterfly appears to be evenly placed the size of some of the shapes are different. Also, the barcode makes the balance asymmetrical.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Graphic Design3 Design Principle

Directions
Gathering Samples
At the start of the semester students will be given a PDF containing a list of different set of design principles. Students will be searching for art and design samples on the internet that display the design principles on the list on the PDF. Each student must use the following websites to look for samples:
http://designspiration.net/ http://ffffound.com/ http://www.designworklife.com/ http://identitydesigned.com/ http://www.visual-journal.net/ http://www.behance.net/ http://geotypografika.com/ http://www.baubauhaus.com/ http://swisslegacy.com http://designersgotoheaven.com/ http://butdoesitfloat.com/ http://welcometohr.com/ http://www.typographicposters.com/# http://osocio.org/ http://www.vomaria.com/ http://hereslookingathue.com/