Review Week 3

What is OSHA? What do the letters stand for?

-OSHA is to protect computer users and keep them healthy and good while they work. The letters stand for Occupational Safety and Health Association

How can graphic designers effectively communicate? In your own words, explain the communication process.

-They can communicate with images and pictures dealing with lines and shapes.

Understanding the history, culture and movements of fine and graphic arts will make you a better producer of visual messages. Why?

- You can get a good idea of what to create with your imagination knowing the different concepts of graphic arts

Podcast #1 Elements of Design

What does it take to create good graphic design?

- It requires an understanding of the elements and principles of design

What is the difference between elements and principles?

 -Elements are the things in design, principle is the way these things are

Name the six (6) elements of design.

 -Line, shape or form, space, texture, value, and color

What can lines aid in, when alone or combined with  other lines or shapes?

 -Readability, appearance and message of the design

Which lines suggest a feeling of rest? Why do you think?

 -Horizontal lines, because it lies down

Vertical lines communicate a feeling of what? Why do you think?

 -Loftiness, because they have a downward direction

What lines suggest a feeling of movement? Why do you think?

 -Diagonal lines, because the lines are moving somewhere

Soft, shallow curved lines suggest what? Why do you think?

 -Comfort, safety, and relaxation because they turn

These lines suggest confusion and turbulence? Why do you think?

 -Deep, acute curves, because it is a great turn

What element defines a specific area of space?

 -Shapes

What is the difference between two dimensional shapes and three dimensional shapes?

-2D-width and height and 3D-depth, width, and height
 
Describe the difference between geometric shapes and organic shapes?

-Geometric is found in math and organic is found in nature
 
What are abstract shapes?
-Stylized or simplified shapes

Which basic shape projects an attitude of honesty or equality?
-Square

What do triangles suggest?
-Action

Circles convey feelings of what?
-Protection/Unity

Describe positive space and negative space?
- Positive-refers to the object
Negative-space not taken up by the object

What is texture?
- Actual surface of the design and how it feels

Incorporating texture into a design can help do what?
- Creates feeling or richness and depth

What is value?
-Degree of light and dark in a design

What is another name for value?
-Tone

What can the element of color do when incorporated into a design?
- Convey moves, identify objects, and grabs attention

Review Week 5

This picture represents SHAPE. It uses shape by showing the toy and simulate a airplane if you just imagine it to be. Especially when the toy only has 2 parts, it can picture something much greater. It gives of something of different detail, but same structure.



 This picture demonstrates LINE. It shows line by using them to make a object. It involves straight lines and curved lines. The lines are also spaced and close together.


This picture demonstrates SPACE. The image has a lot of unocupied space and very little space being ocupied. The message that the picture is sending is about space of the floor and its cleanliness. It is meant to have the focus away from what is being ocupied in the picture.

This picture demonstrates VALUE. The picture shows light all around the object in the middle. The darker parts are in the center and around the edges of the picture. It uses value to draw the attention around the one.

This picture demonstrates TEXTURE. The deer in the picture is made of trash. The texture is the fact that the trash is made into a deer. It gives a good example of what the message of the picture tells.