#mood lines

[seelikeacaveman]

Mood Lines: Setting the Tone of Your Design

Comprehensive collection of various types of lines and the mood they create/reflect.

Useful clickable list that shows 1-2 examples of lines in use, as above (”unstable”). Originally documented in Landscape Architecture, by John Ormsbee Simonds, who put together a diagram of 48 Mood Lines. 

[my-postercloud]

Mood Lines: Setting the Tone of Your Design

[erdogan]

Mood Lines

[inspirationsandideas]

Lines have been used by artists and designers to convey mood since the first drawings in cave walls.  Through repeated use, certain patterns and lines have gained universally recognized meanings. These were documented in Landscape Architecture, by John Ormsbee Simonds, who put together a diagram of 48 Mood Lines.