Week 2_PROJECT 2_Line, Shape, Gestalt, Focal Point, Unity and Variety

Shepard Fairey - Obey to be Better! from Gestalten on Vimeo.

Notes on Critique: 

3. Critique

4. Shape, Gestalt, Focal Point

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Project 002

The aims of Project 002

- Experience the principles of design, including balance, figure & ground, focal point

- Understand the Gestalt laws of Continuity, Proximity, Closure, Similarity

- Demonstrate craftsmanship.

Step 1.  Select one of the Gestalt principles you will be illustrating.

Step 2.  Conduct online research finding images and inspiration for your designs.  Print these out and put in your sketchbook.   You may use these as reference and inspiration, but do not copy what you have found.    Create your own work. Remember what happened to Shepard Fairey when he used the image he found on the internet. 

Step 3.  Sketch Graphics (no shading, only shapes) which represent the principles that you drew earlier.  You should complete a minimum of 4 sketches for each principle.  If your ideas are not well enough developed you will continue to sketch until you and your instructor (ME) can agree on something that is exciting.  PUSH your designs!   Make something that is both exciting and 
interesting. 

Step 4.  Create ONE composition using cut black and white paper to be mounted and shown in class 

RULES:  

Try to create a focal point in your compositions. 

You are welcome to use black on white or white on black.  You may use organic shapes, geometric, or a combination of both. Your compositions may be in either Portrait or Landscape. 

Note:  Your final design might reflect more than one of the principles of Gestalt organization, and that's okay.  But, try to focus on the principle that you have selected.   You will mount your final composition on 1/2 of a sheet of Bristol as pictured below.