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Category Archives: Sample Posts by Students
Color Interaction: Adam Pacheco
I chose to use this image of a poster because of the peculiar usage of the red zebra. The author put a lot of emphasis on the center of the poster by using a bright red zebra with a darkly … Continue reading
Color Interaction: Kathleen Zimmerman
Color plays an important role in every aspect of our lives. I found a good example of an image that incorporates a lot of color. This is an image I took at a park about four years ago of … 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
Color: Hak Do
Color can show a lot about any image. it can be used to guide the reader’s eye, it can be used to set a focus point in the image, or it can be used to tell a story. In … Continue reading
Color: Jasmin Negrete
In Chris Ware’s graphic novel, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” there are many different examples of how multiple colors interact with on anther. On this specific page, you can see the contrast between the gloomy gray color and the … Continue reading
Color: Aaron Scofield
In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss how color can set a mood or environment in a graphic novel or can simply make one object stand out more than another. Lynda Barry uses different hues … Continue reading
Color: Mikah Chan
Within the world of design, color is a powerful tool in building and conveying a message towards an audience to create specific reactions or feelings. Different hues, values, and intensities make similar colors different from each other for specific … Continue reading
Time & Motion: Aaron Scofield
In their book, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips discuss the close relationship between time and motion and how those two connect particularly in graphic design and comic books. They are closely related because motion is the passing or … Continue reading
Time and Motion: Hak Do
In the book “Graphic Design The New Basics” by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips time and motion are defined as being closely related. It’s any word or image that move functions both spatially and temporally. In page 171 … Continue reading
Time & Motion: Mikah Chan
When talking about time and motion, this image stood out to me. The way this particular comic shows how time is moving and the way motion is implied is very interesting. With the work consisting of static drawings and frames, … Continue reading
