Author Archives: almaborders

After spending some time thinking about my poster and how I might want to organize it, I’ve decided not to use one of my stories from the Writing the Unthinkable exercises, nothing I wrote inspired me. However, the idea and … Continue reading →

  Texture can play a large role in creating images, specifically in bringing the picture to life. Whether it be on a smaller scale or a larger scale, texture works to bring more detail to a picture. Texture can convey … Continue reading →

  An image might have a few objects or various components which, stated by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips in Graphic Design: The New Basics, “allow the designer to treat the image as a collection of assets, a database … Continue reading →

Color plays an important role in not only art and images, but in life as a whole. Color relies entirely on perception, changing based on a person’s social and cultural exposure. Color is a design aspect that can alter the entire … Continue reading →

As described on page 233 by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips  in Graphic Design: The New Basics, “Motion can be implied as well as literal…Artists have long sought ways to represent the movement of bodies and the passage of time … Continue reading →

I found this in David Boring by Daniel Clowes. I did not spend a lot of time looking through this one, but I thought this page was interesting. After reading about scale, I decided this page would work well while … Continue reading →

I didn’t realize we were going to be referencing the books we looked at in the library, but I did find a strip online of the book I briefly looked over: To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall. His travelogue … Continue reading →

Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define formstorming along the lines of being used as a tool to infuse a concept with creativity and originality to produce several new results. With this in mind, it seems as though Lynda Barry thought about this while … Continue reading →