Category Archives: Spring 2017 Archive (336)

Points, Lines, and Planes create an image and builds the image into a story. During class, I looked at the graphic novel, American Splendid: The life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar. This novel was in all black and white … Continue reading →

  Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips outline the definitions of point, line, and plane and describe their uses and examples in the book, Graphic Design: The New Basics. While these elements seem like simplistic concepts, they are integrated in every part of … Continue reading →

Reading the chapter “Points, Lines and Planes” in Graphic Design: The New Basics by Jennifer Cole Phillips, I was able to understand the importance of point, line and plane in the field of design and how the interaction with one … Continue reading →

I had the opportunity to view New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld. This graphic novel is a historical imagining of the lives of 5 (?) individuals just before and after hurricane Katrina in 2005. Neufeld uses large, sweeping … Continue reading →

Reading through the first fifty pages of Lynda Barry’s What It Is, you will notice a trend that Lynda asks several questions like, “What is an image?” and “Where do they come from?” She asks these questions many different times and … Continue reading →

In Lynda Barry’s graphic novel, “What It Is” Lynda discusses how formstorming is basically brainstorming but in a visual and design-oriented way. The practice is more garnered towards producing variety over quality, at first, and then after a concept is picked … Continue reading →