Category Archives: Spring 2017 Archive (336)

According to  Ellen Lupton and Jennifer C. Phillips in their book Graphic Design: The New Basics, Textures are both physical and virtual design elements that contain a visual function (pg 69). Texture can be used to add meaning to a design … Continue reading →

Layers help us depict what is possibly most important from what is not. We understand that what is most important is usually on the top or in front of all the other objects, thus making “crucial to how we both … Continue reading →

Lynda Barry’s What It Is is an amalgamation of orginal work by Barry and excerpts and cutouts from others. There are two distict styles at play here, page 97 is my favorite to showcase layers. Lynda’s work is made on yellow … Continue reading →

  On page 40 of What It Is, Lynda Barry recounts the impact that stories had on her childhood. The reason that I chose this particular page from the work to showcase texture has a lot to do with something … Continue reading →

With this page, the layers are mostly physical layers, objects that look like they’re actually stacked on top of one another. on the top of the page, there is the octopus page which acts as a header, but is separate from … Continue reading →

Texture can be used in a variety of different ways to portray a story. On this page, Barry is using a combination of textures in the background and textures on objects in the foreground to tell a sort of hectic … Continue reading →

If I were to judge this page as an art piece, I would say it represents introspection. The bird in the center left of the image is what should immediately draw the eye, but the text next to it is … Continue reading →

There are many things that are made up of layers. Like cake, book shelves, wood, illustrations on Adobe Photoshop, rocks, etc. Layers are ,according to Graphic Design The New Basics, “simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence.” Graphic designers and artists … Continue reading →

Layers function to express overlapping bits of information at the same time. This can be done visually like in the way a map can show the terrain of an area, the roads, and borders. Layers can also be done temporally … Continue reading →