The Beehive

This is from class Monday 8/29. We had to create typographic versions of four Gestalt Principles we learned which are: similarity, proximity, continuity, and closure. We had to make 5 variations of these principles in illustrator to explore verbal visual meaning through breaking up the letterforms. After that we also had to do one more iteration of each constructed image in our chosen theme. After critique it was still hard for me to decide what to do. Everyone said they liked my pill images more than anything, but last year I worked with pills as my medium for a few projects, so I wanted to do a subject matter that was new to me. For the four iterations I went ahead and did the "link" downtown, but I changed my theme later. Anyway, those four pictures are added as well underneath my typographic versions. __________________________________________________________________________ Similarity Closure Proximity  Continuation

This is from class Wednesday 8/24: Dot + Visual Grammar, where we did 12 versions of each gestalt principle, with three themes to explore. My three themes were pills (medication), books, and nature. Out of all three I really like my nature photos, because I wanted to explore these principles through the environment instead of just objects. I also like my pills as well because I feel like they visually explain each principle better than the other two. I am going to post my favorite ones, as well as my contact sheet.

Project One is a consecutive project that is due every week with the same rules. It is three pieces that are 11in x 17in. These three pieces (three produced each week) has to be based on one word that has a lot of meanings. The first time Project One was due was August 24th 2016, this is what I produced and installed in class. Here is a long view of everything on the wall including everything on the ground. Including some detail shots on the bottom portion. Bottom Portion Details Medium: Cherry limeade on tampon, with pads                                                                 Top Portion Details   Medium: Real leaves and paper Medium: Adobe Illustrator, printed on glossy paper After critiques I moved the things off the ground after getting a general consensus that it detracts from the piece overall, so here is a picture of that as well.

This is from class Monday 8/22: Deconstruct The Dot.  We took 27 circles (9 on each sheet) and placed an intersecting grid on top of them. Then we explored, breaking each circle in various ways. We had to pay attention to figure/ground and balance.