Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Graphic Design - The Basic Elements

Dimension


The element active in this image is the dimension. In the same space, there are only triangle shapes, and each one is different size. Bigger size is on the near side on the left, and smaller size is on the back side on the right; therefore, those elements make the dimention active in this image. The dimention which is known for basis of notation, perform two-dimensional visual formats. Those triangles are like blown by wind from the left to the right, and it perform the depth.


Color

This is a design by Milton Glaser in which color is strongly used. The image use colors to convey a man's hair. Beside the hair, there is a man's face shape, and it is all black, so the colorful hair is very eye-catching in this image, and the color has strong affinity to the emotion. The image uses hue red, green, pink, blue, orange and white, and each color has meanings. For example, meaning of the color red is danger, love, warmth, and life. Green color is meaning for nature, fertility and safe. Also, meaning of the color white is purity, cleanliness and neutrality. Those colors are important for this image because these symbolic meanings are what the image performs to portray. The image shows the hair is growing and lay on top of each other, and, he seems to represent each person has their own emotions and feelings, and those consciousness makes the people. 


Shape

The element active in this image is the shape. In this image, strongest feature is triangle shape which is used to convey woman's robe and a large hat. Also, square which is one of another basic shape is used, and those shapes represent a woman. Since triangle has their own psychological and physiological meaning such as action, conflict and tension, artist wanted to give viewers some sense of threatening. Moreover, Above the woman's head, we can see some actions occurring which those shapes seem to be moving in a vertical direction. 








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