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In their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss the term scale, and how it can be considered either an objective or subjective term. When we’re thinking about a scale in objective terms, we’re referring to … Continue reading →

This spread from the graphic novel “Goodbye, Chunky Rice” by Craig Thompson shows many of the powerful and complex design options offered by the concept of framing: The individual parts of the comic strip are each frames, and some of … Continue reading →

According to Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips, in their book Graphic Design:The New Basic, the term scale can be used both objectively or subjectively. When a scale is  objective, this is referring to the physical dimensions of an object compared … Continue reading →

Scale is subjective when it refers to one’s impression of an object’s size. Scale is objective when it refers to the physical size of any object or the relationship of size between something and its depiction. This first page of ctrl by Richard McGuire … Continue reading →

  The vessel that encapsulates artistic treasures, or the window into a universe unlike our own, frames are anything you can make of them, and they all communicate a meaning of some form from their creator to their audience. “A … Continue reading →

A point. A point can be everything and nothing all at once. Given the placement, whether that placement is deliberate, or undirected, gives a point its purpose and is up to the designer who put it there. It can be … Continue reading →

Lynda Barry didn’t have an easy childhood growing up, as is apparent within the first fifty illustrious pages of her imagination-saturated novel, What It Is. In it, she begs to question a new philosophical query per page, to which she … Continue reading →