"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." --Neil Gaiman is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. In the previous introduction to the primary 8 Compositional Devices, we learned the terms for all eight, with a total of 64 composition possibilities. Continue Reading
7 Entities: The Foundation for Continuous Pattern Designs
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” —Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician and Philosopher After Division Principles of the Circle, the fourteenth and last tutorial of the Graphic Design Basic Element Series covers 7 Entities: Continuous Vertical Patterns. 7 Entities Make Up All Art Continue Reading
Division Principles of the Circle
“A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.” —Mark Twain After Division Principles of the Triangle, the thirteenth tutorial of the Graphic Design Basic Element Series covers Division Principles of the Circle. The Circle Reflects Wholeness The most fundamental shape is the circle. As Mark Twain quoted, it’s easily created by connecting Continue Reading
Division Principles of the Triangle
“The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!" — Henry David Thoreau After Division Principles of the Rectangle, the twelfth tutorial of the Graphic Design Basic Element Series covers Division Principles of the Continue Reading