Web Designer & Developer
Ah, figure/ground. Another beast that likes to fight with me! I suppose I have a love/hate relationship with figure/ground (how fitting). I love it when I see it. I delight in finding the “hidden”. Illusion is great for generating visual interest and keeping people’s attention. That said, as much as I enjoy figure/ground, I have a hell of a time creating that kind of illusion...
read moreFinal poster: koskela kopimism poster Development materials: 8 initial ideas: koskela poster ideas 2nd of semi-final ideas: koskela posteridea2 Notes/ideas: poster...
read moreOne of the most interesting parts of color, to me, is color symbolism. That some colors can mean completely opposite things, depending on where you are in the world. In the western world, white is the symbol of purity and marriage; in the eastern world it is the symbol of death. It’s especially important as a designer to be aware of these sorts of meanings behind colors if you’re...
read moreI often feel like texture can really make or break a design I am working on. Or even a design I am viewing. Texture lends a great deal of depth and makes a viewer make a connection to something in their past to the design they are looking at now. Just by looking at the texture, and knowing how it must feel. You look at something with furry texture, for example, you know it is soft and cuddly....
read moreI suppose one of the first things that comes to my mind when thinking about scale and using scale to establish heirarchy or to create an illusion, I think of how the Lord of the Rings movies had to be shot in “forced perspective” to create the illusion of people who were actually about the same size to be interacting as though they were very different in size. Understanding how that...
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