Author Archives: Alex Gutzwiller

  For my comic poster project I will be telling the story of my summer memories of the time I spent at my friend’s cabin in Minocqua, Wisconsin. The story behind this cabin goes much deeper than just being in … Continue reading →

Lynda Barry uses full-colored pages filled with texture in her book What It Is? Barry creates texture with combinations of text, written word, drawings, paintings and photographic collages depicting nature and childhood memories to tell Barry’s story and to ask … Continue reading →

In Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, the artistic element of layers is defined as “simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence”. Through layering designers can use images as a collection of “assets” … Continue reading →

This image appears on David Lasky’s Portfolio- Comics Art at: https://davidlasky.carbonmade.com/projects/4415769/14017962      This comic illustrates the affects that framing has concerning how we perceive the content of a comic. The individual pictures within this design are each frames separated … Continue reading →

From the book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Jennifer Cole and Ellen Lupton explain the basis for design comes from the use of point, line and plane elements. These elements combine to form textures, patterns as well as relationships within … Continue reading →

In the graphic novel, What It Is, Lynda Barry explores the ideas of what are images and how are they created. Throughout the novel, Barry seems to illustrate the difficulties a designer faces while developing the concepts for an image. … Continue reading →