Thursday, November 10, 2011

Review Week 12

The way in which the principle of design is applied affects the expressive content or the message of a work. You can use one or more of these principles to compose a page. Using "repetition" helps the composition of a oage by acting as a visual key that ties your piece together. You can also manipulate the natural proportions of a piece. Many artist use strange proportions to acheive their expressive goals. Using balance in your piece appeals to the audience's eye and helps them to feel a sense of completion or safeness if symmetrical balance is used. If asymmetrical balance is used to give the audience a greater sense of tension. Emphasis is used to make certain elements in a design stand out. Lastly, using unity in a design gives it a wholeness and completion of a composition. Those are just some of the ways that you can use the principles of design!

Repetition: When you repeat a part of the desgin throughout the entire piece.

Proportions: The size and scale of the different parts of a design compared to eachother.

Balance: The distribution of light and heavy elements in a desgin.

Emphasis: Focusing on a certain part of a design.

Unity: The "wholeness" of the composition.

Figure/Ground: The difference between the positive and negative space in a design.

Rythm: Organized movement in space and time.

Contrast: Occurs when two related elements are different.

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