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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance- Francisco Guerrero

The visual example that I chose was the book cover of Double Vision by Walter Abish. This piece caught my eye because it uses typographic elements in the context. The black circles on the cover are POINTS that help guide … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance: Katelyn Orum

Magazine/book covers are something really fascinating to me. All designs are created to draw a viewer’s attention – but the cover of a publication is highly competitive and a window to everything inside. This specific one is really intriguing to … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance: Maryssa Beare

Upon seeing the poster, I immediately go to its title, Seduction, but the almost as immediate does my eye go to the point above it, it looks like a Y encircled. After deciding that the Y isn’t pertinent to the … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance: Erik Lemus

The visual example that I chose to review is the calendar created by Dylan Spiekermann, Erik Spiekermann, and Ferdinand Ulrich. This is a very successful example that illustrates my understanding of point, lines, planes, and balance. This calendar cover does … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane– Maricela Diaz

The word No is made at a bigger SCALE than everything else in the poster which caught my eye making it a focal POINT. Since the word “no” is bigger it BALANCES the rest of the small PLANES on the poster. My eye … Continue reading

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Point, Line, Plane, and Balance: Ryan P Schimack

This typographic poster for a Rammstein concert in 2012 is a good example of the usage of point, line, and plane. My eyes move from the bottom of the poster to the top because of the use of bolder text … Continue reading

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Menu Design – Karen Marten

Confession: Occasionally I watch a trashy “reality” TV show called Bar Rescue. I’m not proud of it. But, I actually learned something from it that I can now relay to real life, so at least there’s that. The narrator of the show fixes … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Kelsey Johnson

Lisa’s broadside displays an excerpt from Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s The Sign of the Four, a Sherlock Holmes novel.  The mood of this text is meditative and aloof and has the feel of classic literature because of the use of old-fashioned … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique – Brian Tomsovic

Broadside_Danielle Clement I was paired with Danielle, whose text was the poem, “Be Positive” by Nedra Johnson Aswad. The mood conveyed by the poster is one of happiness, which I thought fit the message of being positive. The color in … Continue reading

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Student Broadside Critique- Jenna Hayden

The text is A letter to a friend, From Charlie, an excerpt from Perks Of Being A Wallflower. The mood being conveyed is that it feels like it was handwritten in a letter. The text in the background seems like … Continue reading

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