Category Archives: Spring 2017 Archive (336)

Hierarchy: Eva Guillen

I plan to tell the story of different major events that have happened throughout my life through the objects and pictures that I have. I am going to organize this compilation of images in a chronological order that the events … Continue reading

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Javin Nash – Hierarchy

  For my second project “Project 2: Poster Comics” I will be telling a story about my life growing up in across America, resulting in my final destination where I spent the last seven years in Seattle Washington. I will … Continue reading

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Texture: Alex Gutzwiller

Lynda Barry uses full-colored pages filled with texture in her book What It Is? Barry creates texture with combinations of text, written word, drawings, paintings and photographic collages depicting nature and childhood memories to tell Barry’s story and to ask … Continue reading

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Javin Nash – Layers

  On page 68-69 in “And the Pursuit of Happiness” by Maira Kalman she illustrated temporal layers. Temporal Layers are overlapping forms, images, and text blocks that suggest depth and motion. In one of the pictures above there is what … Continue reading

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Layers: Jasmin Negrete

Throughout Lynda Barry’s graphic novel What It Is there you can see many different forms of layers. On page 48 of her graphic novel you can see the form of layering known as Cut and Paste. Throughout this page you can … Continue reading

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Layers: Cass McKay

This is my example of layers from Lynda Berry’s book “What It Is”.  Its from page 74, and I believe this one of the best examples of layering throughout the whole book!  Lets start from the top, all the writing … Continue reading

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Texture: Theodore Nikolov

In “Graphic Design: The New Basics” by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, they describe texture’s purpose to “exist as an optical effect and representation” for a given variable. In Lynda Barry’s “What It Is“, we see that very thing being … Continue reading

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Texture: Cass McKay

The example of texture I selected is page 71 from Lynda Barry’s book What It Is!  This book is full of  examples of texture, its really just up to the reader to select one that stands out in their eyes.  This … Continue reading

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Layers: Aaron Scofield

In their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define layers as “simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence” (141). I completely agree with this definition because it is well-written and I think that … Continue reading

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Layers: Conor Reich

The image to the right-taken from Lynda Barry’s, “What It Is”-acts as a fine demonstration of creatively incorporating layers in the page’s design. There is a lot going on in this page, yet it all works due to her use … Continue reading

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