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In the book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips describe hierarchy as the “order of importance” in a design and that it “employs clear marks of separation to signal a change from one level to … Continue reading →

In their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define layers as “simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence” (141). I completely agree with this definition because it is well-written and I think that … Continue reading →

In Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips describe texture as the “tactile grain of surfaces and substances” (69). I like this definition because when I think about texture, what comes to mind is the individual grains … Continue reading →

In their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss the term scale, and how it can be considered either an objective or subjective term. When we’re thinking about a scale in objective terms, we’re referring to … Continue reading →

In the book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips describe frames as what creates “the conditions for understanding an image or object”(117). I can completely agree with this because if I see a picture frame, all … Continue reading →

In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss what a point, line, and plane are and why they are important to world of designing. According to these authors, “Point, line, and plane are the … Continue reading →

Reading through the first fifty pages of Lynda Barry’s What It Is, you will notice a trend that Lynda asks several questions like, “What is an image?” and “Where do they come from?” She asks these questions many different times and … Continue reading →