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Our book Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips talk about how scale is relative and a motion, among the others as well. I feel this comic from Superman, found in Action Comics No. 1 … Continue reading →

  I found the short comic above while researching the importance of framing in comics. I absolutely love this comic as it highlights the importance and significance frames add to an image. The frames in the comic above are fairly … Continue reading →

The last page of Alan Moore’s, The Killing Joke is an excellent portrayal of how points and lines can serve to not only add to the depth of field, but they can also demonstrate volume, sound, and mood. The last three … Continue reading →

In this page of Iron Man, the artist does not use a full page bleed.  He uses the negative space to imply the different frames.  The two frames with the board members are different sizes to portray different things.  In the … Continue reading →

the I chose this Image from Lynda Barry’s What It Is, is because the use of scale here is interesting, with the octopus figure to the tree is clearly not proportional. In real life the tree is usually larger than an … Continue reading →

Formstorming is the aesthetics of visual intelligence. Its the strengths we use and the paths we must go through in order to generate, critique, reevaluate and finalize our pieces of art. When generating and designing a new piece of art … Continue reading →