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The Strokes are an American band formed in 1998. Many of their album covers have very interesting designs which always remind me of our design class when I see them. In fact, I have found that their albums reflect our vocabulary words.

Take the Strokes Angles album cover for instance. This cover shows evidence of pattern because of the checkered floor and the overlapping columns. Furthermore the columns and checkered pattern also use size, a device of depth, to convey distance where they meet at a vanishing point through linear perspective. With all of these elements combined, the album cover immediately creates of visual interest.

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Pattern: Repetition of objects or elements within a design

How do we create visual interest?: Visual interest can be gained in various ways such as creating a pattern.

Actual Tactile Texture: Texture that can actually be touched

Implied Texture: A design that appears to be three dimensional but is actually two dimensional.

How texture and pattern are similar and different: Both texture and pattern use the technique of repetition in a design. However, they differ when it comes to our sense of touch (texture) and sight (pattern).

Collage: Gathering materials of any kind such as cloth, textured paper, etc. and placing them together in one creative design.

Trompe L’Oeil: French for “to fool the eye.” This technique is used to sharpen certain objects to convey realism.

List some devices to show depth and explain how they function: Size - Create the sense and illusion of distance through the size of a certain object or subject within a design. For example, making an object big to appear closer and another object smaller to make it seem farther. Overlapping – Using multiple objects and laying them over each other while part of it remains visible to convey distance. Vertical Location – Using a spatial technique with the elevation of an image. Aerial Perspective: The portrayal of depth using darks and lights. Plan, Elevation, Perspective – Typically used for architectural designs, this technique guides the viewer into viewing an object in different views for a better understanding of the elements/objects. Linear Perspective: Another spatial technique in which parallel lines converge as they meet at the vanishing point on the horizon line. One Point Perspective – All lines within a converge to one vanishing point. Two Point Perspective – Lines converge to two points on the horizon line. - Multipoint Perspective – Multiple vanishing points for different objects.

What is isometric projection: The illusion of three – dimensional space without having lines converge and recede at a vanishing point.

Equivocal Space:  The inexactness of the location and space beween objects due to their transparency.

Value: Two overlapping objects that are both seen.

Value Emphasis: Creating a focal point by using a light and dark contrast method within a design.

Values to suggest space: Objects in the distance lose detail under the method of aerial perspective in comparison the objects that are larger and closer which have more details.

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In our design class, we are creating art through Photoshop depicting prompts such as depth, ebb and flow, and anthropomorphism. These amazing artworks are great examples of the prompts and have actually given me ideas on how to start my own.

1: Untitled (2013) by Ceyda Aykan

2: FLOW (2016) by  Claudia Meyer

3: HARMLOSER STURZ (1982) by Urs Luthi

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Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to be sorta good at something.

Jake - Adventure Time

While the cartoon, Adventure Time, can be quite silly, there are moments where the characters experience difficult situations that can be taxing mentally and/or physically and can happen in real life. This particular quote resonated with me because I often feel extremely upset when I cannot perfect something immediately even though I am still learning. Furthermore, it has also shown me that it is completely okay to make mistakes because anything can be a learning process and will take time to be “sorta good” at.

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My first #jumpstartfashionshow2016 with Jen, Denise, and Talia!

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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

David Levithan, Every Day

David Levithan’s Every Day depicts the story of a soul, A, who travels from body to body against their will and eventually falls in love. This story has personally impacted me with Levithan’s beautifully crafted words because the story lets the readers view the world in a whole new perspective of the world and how we perceive people versus how we should see them. This particular quote tells the readers that we cannot always expect amazing things to happen or that it is perfectly fine to just be okay because while it is not an extreme feeling of joy, it is still a level of happiness.

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In the Blue (2014) - Paul Barces

Paul Barces is an emerging artist who has had one solo art show and two group shows since 2014. Currently, on Artsy, he has twenty-two works in total and ten of them are for sale. Many of his artwork is focused on abstraction and curvilinear shapes.

Barces uses distortion as his main technique to create nonobjective pieces, but he also successfully creates biomorphic works. However, there are pieces of his works that are nonobjective. Nevertheless, his work is captivating and even soothing to look at due to its cool colors.

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Balance: Distributing an even visual weight of a design.

Imbalance: Unevenly distributing the visual weight of a design.

Symmetrical Balance: Shapes/objects that use repetition by appearing side by side vertically.

Asymmetrical Balance: Different shapes/objects with similar visual weight or attraction.

Radial Balance: Elements of a design expanding out from a central or focal point.

Allover Pattern: Also known as, “Crystallographic balance.” This technique emphasizes the overall balance of a design.

Shape/Form: Shape and Form are very similar. However, Shape is much more specific and is created and described by having an area being defined by lines that enclose it. Form, on the other hand, describes the overall conclusion of a design such as its colors or textures.

Volume/mass: Creating a three-dimensional work using height, width, and depth.

Naturalism/Distortion: Naturalism in a design often exhibits proportional shapes and great detail in a specific manner.

Distortion: Using exaggerated shapes (EX: altering shapes by stretching)

Abstraction: A type of distortion that simplifies shapes/objects and great details are not exhibited.

Biomorphic: Abstract shapes that suggest natural forms because of their form.

Nonobjective: Geometric shapes that give no reference to natural forms.

Rectilinear: Simple, sharp, and angular forms.

Curvilinear: Gentle, round, flowing shapes.

Positive Space: An object that is placed/replaces a section of negative space.

Negative Space: An empty area of an image.

How do multiple images suggest motion?: Multiple images can suggest motion by taking a series of poses and overlapping them chronologically to show the process of motion.

How do you create optical movement?: Due to intense colors, our eyes tend to have trouble focusing on all of them which will eventually exhaust the retina and allow an afterimage to appear after looking away.