Week 7
Typography

From pictogram to type
-pictures to words (alphabet)

• First humans communicated through speaking and drawing. 3,100 BC (Early Sumerian pictograms) -Signs corresponding to spoken sounds

• Around 2000 BC Phoenicians created symbols that expressed single syllables and consonants

• Around 2600 BC the Egyptians used paprius paper

• 1040 AD Chinese invent movable type

Fonts comes the word (fonte) french -Something that has melted

1874-1878 (First Typewriter)
It was called "Sholes & Glidden Type Writter" produced by gun makers, E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, NY.

1890's-Lynotype
1950's-Phototypesetting designers could produce multiple font sizes.

We were shown lots of different fonts in class.

Week 6
Layers &Transparency

-Layers: Maps use overlapping layers to separate different layers of data. Layers create a sensation of time/narrative. Printing techniques use multiple layers of ink to build a single image.

Ryan McGiness- Has become an art star
-Has created a semantics of symbolic icons


Collage: Derives from the french word "Papier Collé" used to describe techniques of cut-outs, can include other medias -Painting/drawing

How is this important to CART students? Every digital object can be manipulated rendered new again.

Transparency: Making something clearer/ hide more then reveal. There is also digital transparency.

Week 5
Technological Innovation

Today's class we looked at figure/ground relationships, framing and hierarchy.
Figure/ground relationships shapes our visual perception. This can be changed to positive and negative space.

• Creating figure/ground tension adds visual energy to an image or mark
• In posters, layouts, what is left out frames and balances what is built in
• Train your eye to carve out what space as you compose with forms (stable, reversible, ambiguous figure)
• Framing is everywhere. A picture frame sets off a work of art from it's surroundings bringing attention to the work and lifting apart from their settings
• Margins provide space, protective frame
• An image without text is open to integration (Can be used as a focal point)
  

Week 4
Introduction to Color

There is different ways of seeing and categorizing colors. Color derives from the spectrum of light, which interacts with the light receptors of a human eye. It is a visual/perceptual property in humans to categorize red, yellow blue and others. Colors can covey a mood describe reality or codify information.

Sonia Delaunay a french artist once said that we need to appreciate the relationships with color to fully appreciate art. In class we have been over some of Delaunay's work. They are all have very distinct colors and patterns.

In class we've discussed specific methods when using color.
-Variation vs Value
-Bezold effect
-Optical color mixing/mixing primary colors

One sentence that really stood out for me out of all the rest is the following:
Color exists in the eye of the beholder

Our in class assignment was to make create a grid of 6 by 6 squares (36 in total) with white in the upper-left corner, black in the upper-right and colors that you chose in the bottom corners. We had to fill the rest of the squares with shades and tints of the colors.

Our home assignment consisted of three choices. The one I chose was to create a geometrical allusion by drawing. Next step was to apply color patterns and experiment with hue, value, and saturation. We had the chance of experimenting with juxtaposing elements. Here is what I came up with: