Author Archives: allyssapuett

Hierarchy: Allyssa Puett

Posted on March 23, 2017 by allyssapuett

For my poster I’ll take inspiration from Lynda Barry’s What It Is by using layers to create texture, adding depth and detail, as well as hierarchy to create a sense of order and direction in my collage poster.  In this … Continue reading →

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Layers: Allyssa Puett

Posted on March 7, 2017 by allyssapuett

Layers function to express overlapping bits of information at the same time. This can be done visually like in the way a map can show the terrain of an area, the roads, and borders. Layers can also be done temporally … Continue reading →

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Texture: Allyssa Puett

Posted on March 7, 2017 by allyssapuett

On page 88 of Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is, she makes use of various textures to tell her story. She does this though almost most all throughout her book with drawn details such as all the dots and … Continue reading →

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Color: Allyssa Puett

Posted on February 16, 2017 by allyssapuett

In the chapter “Color” in Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss how color can express and describe mood and information, thus forming our perception of a given object. Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” uses … Continue reading →

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Time & Motion: Allyssa Puett

Posted on February 9, 2017 by allyssapuett

Artists and designers create movement as well as showing passage of time using concepts such as repetition, shapes, overlap, and cropping. Motion in itself is type of change and change can only occur as time passes (Graphic Design, p. 233). … Continue reading →

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Framing: Allyssa Puett

Posted on January 24, 2017 by allyssapuett

  In Graphic Design, framing is described as a way to form the viewers understanding of an image or object. Most comics utilize borders to separate each panel or frame from each other. In the comic Two Questions by Lynda … Continue reading →

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