Color exercise one: a repeating pattern of circle and square
Color exercise two: My last name in Chinese is Lin, 林
Part of the blue remain consistent throughout all compositions
The rest varied in hue, saturation and value.
This is the book I looked into when I was researching for inspiration for the project. It’s called “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there,the expanding field of graphic design 1900-2020” Paperback – October 18, 2011, by Sophie Krier (Draft Writer), Marjolijn Ruyg (Draft Writer) Graphic Design Museum printed by Pfset Yapimevi, Turkey.
This book consists of so many great examples of graphic design and below are some photos taken from the book. Besides that, there are more thumbnail images that inspired me on the rhyme composition as well. In fact, if given more time, I would like to experience more with the images.
Besides, I also looked into a book titled “Index A” by Charles Wilkin, published Die Gestalten Verlag (April 15, 2003) “Index A is in essence a catalogue of thoughts, images and instinct collected and reassembled by American Charles Wilkin of Automatic Art and Design. With clients ranging from Coca-Cola to Urban Outfitters, Wilkin combines multiple layering of images and type reminiscent of David Carson. In an era of multimedia full of visually aware consumers and highly targeted marketing, Index A acts as a reminder of the increasing influence of design on the human culture and the individual expression in a very commercial world.’“
It has great examples that inspired me too but I didn’t scan or take photos of the pages inside.
There was another book I found interesting as well. Besides its the nice colors in each picture, there is a concept of masking layers. And the composition of the images were inspiring.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread.
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
The shoes were flushing down the whirl
to the bottom where the old woman was at
Rotation and change of scale creates a sense of depth
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
an unbalanced composition
Consists of different images and overlapping texture
Contrast variation with the left side being lower and the right being extreme black & white
She gave them some broth without any bread.
The composition that seems symmetrical but not completely
The black background and white diamond creates a stage with spotlight
And the hero for the play is the bottle
The show is on and the many faces appear like the audience
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
As mentioned by Prof Ina. This composition made use of a technique called Gestalt.
‘Gestalt’ is a psychology term which means “unified whole”. It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.”
The positive space in the composition will be the two halves of the old woman’s face
Yet with a small heel tiled at an angle,
the negative space appears like a person with a wicked smile
it indicates the dark side of the friendly and kind-looking old lady
And it is upside-down from the original picture,
which also imply a message of something being wrong
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
I like the wired and mysterious smile of the old woman
It seems like she is looking at somewhere out from the window of the shoe she lived in
And the shoe being presented in black and white on the background of the opposite color
This composition is simple with big contrast and just some small texture to balance it out
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
A radial composition
The old woman is at the center,
symbolizing the sun
burning out her energy for so many children she had
When looked closely carefully,
you will discover the children are facing different directions,
they are in a chaos
She gave them some broth without any bread.
The two compositions are arranged together as they flow naturally
together
The contrast in the images brings the focus
The second composition consist of the bottle as well as many hands,
which appear in other composition,
making a connection among the series.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread.
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
So I will be posting all of my compositions except those selected for printing here.
Begin with the very first few attempts on this.
The egg was supposed to represent the children of the old woman.
The whirl/vortex images in the background indicated the emotions of her, which changes according to the sentence from the rhyme.
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She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
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She gave them some broth without any bread.
Going for a creepy scene when she is actually feeding the eggs with an egg.
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Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
And a background that is much more distorted.
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She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
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Variation for radial composition
Repetition & Contrast
and lots of eye contacts
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The Funeral Wreath
The old woman could barely took the burden of so many children
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There are so many of them…the place is all filled up
She tried to smile with a frown
It’s suffocating her
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The old woman is in the center just like the sun,
giving our energy to her children
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A similar composition as the second one
A sunflower-like shape
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There are not only so many of the children
They are even in a chaos
disagreeing in the direction they face
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Inspired by what you see when you flush the toilet…
or unplug a bathtub filled with water(children)
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Then one attempt for a linear composition
Some shadow to create a floor and distance in space
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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
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Some play with the positive and negative space
Two halves of one face of the old woman on the sides
a tiny small shoe that appears like a smile on a white person
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She gave them some broth without any bread.
The old woman was feeding them with the liquor
It is almost empty
But there were so many of them waiting
It is kind of linked with the previous sentence of the rhyme
“She had so many children…”
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Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
collage with different texture to create a stage
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