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“Motion can be implied as well as literal…Artists have long sought ways to represent the movement of bodies and the passage of time within the realm of static, 2-dimensional space” (Graphic Design: The New Basics, pg. 233). This except of Clyde … Continue reading →

When I first looked at this picture, the first sign of motion I saw was the plane. according to the Graphic Design book every image has implied motion. Artist use techniques such as rotation, scaling, cropping, repetition and others to … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Comics have many different advantages when it comes to the portrayal of movement. One of the advantage comics have over other mediums such as movies or books, is their ability to add verbal sound effects to mundane actions, and combine … Continue reading →

In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips explain how designers create movement and showing the passage of time, even when working with a 2-dimensional, static medium.   Lupton and Phillips write that motion is created by illustrating … Continue reading →