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Layers: Logan Quaranta-Rush

Layers help us depict what is possibly most important from what is not. We understand that what is most important is usually on the top or in front of all the other objects, thus making “crucial to how we both … Continue reading

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Texture: Logan D. Quaranta-Rush

Texture is apart of everything, it is “the tactile grain of surfaces and substances” as described in Graphic design the new basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Phillips. We often look at texture as how an object feels or a … Continue reading

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Color: Logan Quaranta-Rush

  Color while often overlooked by the average viewer, sets the tone for everything we see in our daily lives, from billboards to magazines to the colors that make up our roads. Humans perceive colors differently and associate them with … Continue reading

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Time and motion: Logan Quaranta-Rush

In today’s world we don’t often think about the images that move across our screens as seamless animations. As consumers most of us don’t care about the process that goes into creating such 4-dimensional designs. In the beginning of creating … Continue reading

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Scale: Logan Quaranta-Rush

With the amount of information that a person gathers every moment an author must use different design techniques to focus the viewer’s attention to what is happening on a single piece of paper or screen. One of these ways is … Continue reading

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Framing: Logan Quaranta-Rush

While creating a visual landscape for a viewer the designer, artist, or even author as this can even be necessary in one’s writing must find a way to frame one’s work so that the viewer is drawn to the focus … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane: Logan Quaranta-Rush

In the comic Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi we are not distracted by large amounts of detail or color, allowing the reader to focus on the seriousness of the story being told. On page 8 the writer tells us of her … Continue reading

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Formstorming: Logan Quaranta-Rush

In Lynda Barry’s graphic novel, What It Is. The reader is moved from page to page by a collage of images and different texts pulled from magazines, newspapers and other handwritten notes or essays. We see a repetition of this … Continue reading

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