Category Archives: Sample Posts by Students

Motion is a kind of change and change takes place in time. This picture exemplifies this because the character is falling in space and as he falls his body is getting closer to the bottom of the black square or … Continue reading →

Scale is an important graphic element for artists to use within their comic or graphic novel. According to Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, with the use of scaling techniques an artist can create an image that has appeal, movement, … Continue reading →

In examining the use of scale in design, this page taken from Chris Ware’s graphic novel Building Stories provides many elements of scale. Objective scale is referred to as a literal representation of something. In this example the correlation of the … Continue reading →

    Framing is important in art pieces, but even further, it is an important component of life. Frames works to help our understanding and perception of specific content, essentially being found everywhere and in different aspects of life. This is a page … Continue reading →

Framing is the condition in which a piece of work is presented to viewers in a design specific way. Everyday we see framing all around us, whether it be the design of a website or a advertisement picture in a … Continue reading →

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware is a graphic novel that makes use of framing incredibly often. This comic began as a serialized strip in newspapers which accounts for the many panels and subsequent frames around … Continue reading →

The graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is a memoir of the author’s life, focusing primarily on the familial relations, self-discovery, loss that Bechdel experienced throughout her life. Since the story focusing primarily on the author … Continue reading →

The New York restaurant Pera Soho uses a menu that has been designed to have a strong hierarchical structure.  The name and logo of the restaurant is at the very top of the page, suggesting readers should look at that … Continue reading →