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Design Principles Task 2

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Design Principles Task 2 - Visual Analysis 21.02.2025 - 07.03.2025  Week 3 - Week 5 Jolin Ceria (0363784) Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media Table of Contents Lecture Notes Instructions Task Visual Analysis Sketches Feedback Reflection Lecture Notes Visual Analysis is a method of understanding design that focuses on the visual elements and principles. Part of it's process involves describing and explaining a visual structure and recognize how a designer chooses to communicate their ideas and implement things in their design. It's an important part of developing one's visual literacy, as it trains your ability to read and critically interpret images. There are three main steps in visual analysis: To observe  by closely looking and identifying the visual elements in a design and describing them in your own words, preferably without prior information about the design beforehand. Observing a design without prior information will help you look, think, and find goo...

Design Principles Task 1

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Design Principles Task 1 - Exploration 03.02.2025 - 21.02.2025 Week 1 - Week 3 Jolin Ceria (0363784) Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media Table of Contents Lecture Notes Instructions Task Principles Gestalt Theory Contrast Emphasis Balance Repetition Movement Harmony Symbol Words and images Exploration Feedback Reflection Lecture Notes Elements of Design: Point: Simplest element of design, used as a repetitive mark forms a line and will create two/three dimensional figures and forms as it moves in space Line:  Can be active or static, aggressive or passive, sensual or mechanical to indicate directions, define boundaries of shapes and spaces, imply volumes or solid masses, and suggest motion or emotion and can be used to depict qualities of light and shadow and to form patterns and textures by grouping them together. Shape: Refers to the expanse within the outline of two dimensional area or within the three dimensional  object. Form : A three dimensiona...