Thursday, September 2, 2010

Reading summary/Priciples,Form/Composition,and interview

Priciples
Design is the process of purposefull visual creation.

Elements of design
- Conceptual elements - Point, line, plane, volume
- Visual elements - shape, size, color, texture
- Relational elements - direction, position, space, gravity
- Practical elements - Representation, meaning, function

Interrelationships of Forms
- Detachment - Forms remain seperate from each other but close together
- Touching - Two forms that are close together that they touch
- Overlapping - One crosses over the other and appears to remain above covering the one beneath
- Interpenetration - Same as overlapping but transparent
- Union - Forms joined together to make bigger form
- Subtraction - Overlapping of a negative form on a positive form making the positve form to become invisible
- Intersection - Same as Subtraction but a new smaller form is created
- Coinciding - The forms become one

Form/Composition

Elements of Form - Dot, line, plane, volume

Characterisitcs of form - size, shape, texture, color

Composition refers to the arrangment of elements and characteristics whitin a defines area.

Simplicity usually refers to a form with a limited bumber of simple elements

The human eye examines complex objects by looking at what is important and essential to our understanding.

Interview

There are many way of conveying your ideas through art, nature, and abstact paintings

2 previous reading summuries on previous post.

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