Point, Line, Plane, and Balance – Alex Weber

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The design I chose to analyze I felt really captured what the reading went over well. The design uses planes, lines, and balance very well and one could argue it even uses points in a subtle way. All of the words are broken up by color which is mainly what the design consists of. However, when the colors are placed in planes that are broken up neatly by lines they start to form letters. The letters spell out “Make Luck” which is a saying I found really cool because the artist wanted to emphasize that creativity is more reliable than luck. the jagged lines and overlapping planes make for an interesting design. The lines on the top and bottom are useful because they give the artist a balanced space for more information with out taking your eye away from the center design. The lines that are seen in the words are really made up of edges of planes. Because the planes have an opacity they show the lines from darker planes below coming up through the letters. While the design seems kind of chaotic at a glance, all of the colors are easy on the eyes and the lines are all very specifically placed to create a visible letter. The points where these lines intersect are harder to spot but are there if you look for them. This tells me that the artist wanted the viewer to focus on the planes and the letters that are made with them. One thing that I don’t like about this piece is the curves in the “C” and the “U.” I would have much rather seen the artist use more planes along the edge of the curves using more short, straight edges to create the idea of a curve. Let me know what you think of this design and what you would have done differently.

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