Week 9 Blog Exercise – Dimension/Depth/Space

(original site: http://haha.nu/creative/the-best-of-hahanu-2006/ )

I chose this example because I think it relates to a graphic depiction of the illusion of space. In this 3-D animation there are a many elements found that we learned this week. For instance the linear depth is the first thing i noticed. The lines go back and up and reminds me of  looking at the bottom of a steep slide or something similar to that. Then the texture gradient, the squares are large and slightly misshapen then very rectangle then become perfect squares again. We know in actuality the squares closest to us are perfect because of our knowledge of relative size. Then the shading convergence gives helps give us  proximity clues, and tells us hoe close the ball it to us and and gives us information that the top or the picture is further away from us. I would even say there is a use of Atmospheric perspective because the lines get out of focus and fuzzy as they go away from us in the picture plane.  Focusing on the clock the face uses peripheral vision causing a fish eye lens, and shading to help describe the 3-dimensionality of the sphere. The sphere itself overlaps the space of the background, giving us information that it is closer to u

Week 8 Application (Blog) Exercise: Tone and Color

This is a favorite poster of mine.


a) Tone is operating in this example because of the black almost "negative" figures. The way it’s placed shows us where the calf muscle is on the front left surfer. It also communicates to us witch surfer is closer and witch is further away, and tone is helped shown in the shadows of the figures in the sand.


b) Tone is interacting with shape most interestingly in this poster. The tone depends on the shape, we would be clueless as to what was what because this picture lacks any depth by color for us.


c) Color is operating in this example by giving us the only information on what time of day it is and what it-taking place. We know its sunset at the beach because of the overlapping orange sand over the yellow setting sun, casting a pink sunset. It’s as simple as it gets.


d) Color of this poster is interacting with balance most interestingly for me. Because of the % of the colors used to take up the space, the pink, being more dominant has less of it, with the black on the less dominant orange keeps it from popping out to much. And the yellow is a nice centering balance for us. And even though there are two figures on the right the one figure balances them out by being larger (because it is closer).

Week 7 Blog Exercise

This Chair/rocking chair design was so eye catching I had to pick this one to talk about. The 3 of Dondis Basic Elements I find most prominent in this one is number one- movement, number two- color, and three- shape.

Movement it active in the roundness of the bottom part of the structure, I instantly visualized myself rocking in it, and its large enough to put your feet on to dictate the shifting of weight. This movement performs attractively to the viewer because it’s a motion of comfort. Being rocked as a little child, or to fall asleep just like in nursery rhyme songs we heard at a young age. The person sitting in the chair looks comfortable, because of the quality it’s hard to see how cushy the chair is but I can’t imagine its plastic.

Color is just popping out at us, yelling look at me! Against the white it is visually appealing, also the little flower on the ground was a nice touch by the photographer. The red/pink on the inside is active because their will always be different shadows and a different glares of light on it so as it rocks back and for the color is always changing. It's creating an eye catching chair that you can break your sight from it performs for its self. Just the fact that the color is only on the inside creates an extra dynamic visual appeal.

Shape is huge in this chair. Its shaped like a bean, now I know that’s not a "primary shape" however its what we recognize so that’s what we relate it to. In actuality it’s really half-circle on top of another half-circle that connect on the sides. Its active because is looks like it would fit the back of the human body comfortably, and the shape of the design works for itself because we want to sit in it, to experience how it feels. And the fact that its hallow just makes it all the more interesting, like the shape could actively change if someone who might weigh more sat in the chair opposed to someone who weighs less.

Week 6 Blog Exercise - Design Success and Failure in Relation to Syntactical Guidelines

My future is hopefully in advertisement logos for big companies. This is a logo for MTV music television entertainment, and a poor one at that in my opinion. Its not visually stimulating of stressed in the least bit, which it should be because this television program prides themselves on being wild, crazy, fresh, everything you haven't seen before will be seen here first kind of attitude. This Design with flowers behind what appears to be a big metal M doesn't even give incite to what MTV if you had know idea who MTV was.

 

this is a great depiction of a successful logo for MTV. The design is stressed by being at an angle and shifted to the right a little making it unbalanced however the big red rolling stones logo on the left makes it balanced because it draws so much attention. And the bright colors on the dark background makes the design pop. This is a far more successful example of a logo where Syntactical Guidelines have been put to good use.