The document discusses principles of design including:
1) Invisible and visible structures, where invisible structures have conceptual lines and visible structures have actual visible lines.
2) Form refers to positive design elements like points, lines, planes, and volumes that are used in design.
3) The relationship between form and space creates tension and determines visual activity, movement, and a sense of 3D. Understanding this relationship is important before understanding individual design objects.
4) Volumes contain mass when the space within is perceived to be filled, while surfaces and planes take on characteristics based on their size relative to surrounding space and elements.
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Principles of Design GRP 6
The document discusses principles of design including:
1) Invisible and visible structures, where invisible structures have conceptual lines and visible structures have actual visible lines.
2) Form refers to positive design elements like points, lines, planes, and volumes that are used in design.
3) The relationship between form and space creates tension and determines visual activity, movement, and a sense of 3D. Understanding this relationship is important before understanding individual design objects.
4) Volumes contain mass when the space within is perceived to be filled, while surfaces and planes take on characteristics based on their size relative to surrounding space and elements.
In most cases, structures are invisible, whether formal,
semi-formal, informal, active, or inactive. In invisible structures, structural lines are conceptual, even though they may slice a piece off from a unit form. Such lines are active but not visible lines of measurable thickness. VISIBLE STRUCTURES
Sometimes a designer may prefer a visible structure.
This means that the structural lines exist as actual and visible lines of desired thickness. Such lines should be treated as a special kind of unit form because they possess all the visible elements and can interact with the unit forms and the space contained by each of the structural subdivisions. FORM- MASS & VOLUME
Form is any positive element we place on a page
as opposed to the negative elements we consider space. Form is the point, line, plane, and volume. It’s the shapes and dots and text and textures and images we use in our design. If it’s meant to be a positive element it’s form. All forms carry some kind o f meaning , though no one form is better than another at communicating meaning.
Your choice in which
forms to use, however, is an important consideration in communicating the right message, your message. Form and space, figure and ground are mutually dependent on each other. You can’t change one without changing the other. The relationship between form and space creates tension, determines the amount of visual activity and movement, and gives a sense of 3- dimensionality in a design. A viewer must first understand the relationship between form and space before understanding any of the individual objects on the page. SURFACES,PLANES AND SHAPES Much the same way a line can be thought of as a series of adjacent dots, a plane or surface can be thought of as a series of adjacent lines. We’re simply adding another dimension. Surfaces and planes are abstract objects. We’ll talk about them more as shapes or forms as we think of them as concrete objects. Planes or surfaces mostly act as dots. The difference is the size of the surface has grown large enough to become an important characteristic as has the contour defining the plane. The larger the size of the plane the more the dotlike characteristics become secondary. This size is relative to the surrounding space and elements. VOLUME AND MASS
Volumes are empty space defined by surfaces, lines,
and points. When we fill in the space or give the perception that the space within a volume has been filled to some degree the volume contains mass. Volumes are empty space defined by surfaces, lines, and points. When we fill in the space or give the perception that the space within a volume has been filled to some degree the volume contains mass. VISUAL PROPERTIES OF FORM VISUAL PROPERTIES OF FORM
Form also have relational properties which govern the pattern
and composition of elements:
Position – the location of a form relative to its environment or
the visual filled within which it is seen.
Orientation – The direction of a form relative to the ground
plane, the compass points, other forms, or to the person viewing the form.
Visual Inertia – The degree of concentration and stability of a
form. The visual inertia of a form depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to the ground plane, the pull of gravity, and our line of sight PRIMARY SHAPES CIRCLE – A plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a fixed point within a curve