Category Archives: Spring 2018 Archive (336)

Color has such a huge impact when it comes to looking at an image. Color can help in directing a viewer’s eye, color can help with making certain parts of the image stand out more than the rest, color can … Continue reading →

I pulled this picture from the National Geographic Travel website. Not only is it beautiful, but it captures the hillside of Santorini at sunset. Looking at the white/tan building there is a lot of color contrast between that and the … Continue reading →

The example above shows a color-blind test used to determined what kind of “Color-blind” a person is based on how they see reds, greens, yellows, and blues. I chose this example specifically because it exemplifies contrasting colors and interaction of … Continue reading →

In the color-filled design at right, there are many basic reasons responsible for the success of the scheme used. For starters, the colorful rounded oblongs our astronaut is falling through are comprised of complimentary colors. The darker shades of red, … Continue reading →

This ad campaign that was created for Microsoft was designed by a company called DoubleKnot Creative that is owned by a friend of my family. The two images were originally designed to be a .gif, which indicates that this ad … Continue reading →

I decided I wanted to show an image of a colorful Italian home, because I know that there is a lot of colorful architecture there, and I knew there would be one that fit what this chapter is talking about. … Continue reading →

This is an example of color that I found on the website Dribbble. This example, although seemingly simple, has some very complex color element that gives the simple design a lot of dimension and detail making it immensely more appealing … Continue reading →

The revered FedEx logo. Quite possibly one of the most inconspicuous and famous uses of figure/ground, (positive/negative space). The multiple layers of interpretation are key to the designs success. I must admit, it took me many years of staring right … Continue reading →

Patterns, with there either vibrant, allure or gaudy, repulsiveness, are ornamental designs comprised of infinitely repeating combinations of shapes. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, the authors discuss how patterns are derived from the formation of isolated elements linear elements … Continue reading →

The primary image I selected to use is Tang Yau Hoong’s work from a blog from 2013 about negative space illustrations.  The background color is orange, but then there are competing images of a couple of people boating on a … Continue reading →