Category Archives: Spring 2017 Archive (336)

I was unable to attend class on 1/17/17. I used examples from What It Is for this post. I tried to find the page I thought would best demonstrate all three elements working together. I found that after page 122 of What It Is … Continue reading →

From the book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Jennifer Cole and Ellen Lupton explain the basis for design comes from the use of point, line and plane elements. These elements combine to form textures, patterns as well as relationships within … Continue reading →

In this image you can see point, line, and plane work together to create a dramatic, memorable illustration in John Lewis’ March. For the basic design of the page, point and line is used together to create the shape of the … Continue reading →

  One of the graphic novel that I was able to look through and that really caught my attention on Tuesday’s class was Barefoot Gen vol 1, by Keiji Nakazawa. While glancing through this graphic novel one can see that there … Continue reading →

Graphic novels are extremely engaging when done correctly. If the images being shown can engage the reader on a basic level, helping draw the eye across the image in a reasonably paced fashion without being too busy, the entire page … Continue reading →

In this novel, Prison Town Paying the Price, the author makes each of his pages different in how they should be read; in this page there is a left to right form of reading. Point, line and plane are used to form … Continue reading →

Points, lines and planes are the building blocks of design. They create images, icons, textures, patterns, diagrams, animations and typographic systems. Points are defined as marks that define a position in place. They can be insignificant flecks of matter or … Continue reading →

I didn’t realize we were going to be referencing the books we looked at in the library, but I did find a strip online of the book I briefly looked over: To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall. His travelogue … Continue reading →