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Texture: Conor Reich
Texture allow illustrators to clue the reader into the nature of things within the world they are creating. Texture can refer to the type of paper the final product is being printed on, or more likely, it refers to the … Continue reading
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Texture: Aaron Scofield
In Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips describe texture as the “tactile grain of surfaces and substances” (69). I like this definition because when I think about texture, what comes to mind is the individual grains … Continue reading
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Layers: Sanaya Nordine
In this page from Lynda Barry’s What It Is we are invited to explore the concept “Can You Stand Being Lost?” She asks us to follow a wandering mind, and seems to be one of the few pages without any intended … Continue reading
Layers: Alex Gutzwiller
In Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, the artistic element of layers is defined as “simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence”. Through layering designers can use images as a collection of “assets” … Continue reading
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Texture: Sanaya Nordine
According to Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips’ Graphic Design: The New Basics texture “corresponds with [the designs] visual function.” In Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” we are taken through a series of short excerpts on her childhood and pages in … Continue reading
Layers: Cora Kline
Linda Barry’s image shows layers in several ways. Primarily the image of the deer is layered behind blue shapes, which are implied to be flower petals, and little silver/white dots which could be dew or snowflakes. Another major example of … Continue reading
Texture: Jasper Barbosa-Rodriguez
Reading about texture made me think of the hands that flipped the pages of my book. It made me think about the shiny and dull surface of skin, speckled with flecks of freckles, along with tiny nicks of discolored skin … Continue reading
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Layers: Theodore Nikolov
Layers allow us to understand what content is supposed to be more important to the reader and usually helps us determine the order of which we are supposed to read the material. They are important in all types of media, … Continue reading
Texture: Cora Kline
Linda Barry uses texture in several different ways on this page, both in the literal sense, where if we had the original picture we could feel it, and in implied texture, where it wouldn’t have a noticeable physical difference, but … Continue reading
Layers: Jasper Barbosa-Rodriguez
Layers seem to be right up there with Point, Line, Plane and Scale, in regards to the frequency of graphic components we see in our everyday lives. Whether they’re in the complicated form of collages (cut and paste), or simply … Continue reading
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