Proportion in design

That awkward moment when you wake up and your enchanted baton has turned a grove of trees into a flock of birds. Ok, no us neither, but if your having trouble picturing what that might look like then let "Laëtitia Devernay":http://chat-terton.over-blog.com/ sort you out. Her illustrations for _The Conductor_ last night took the top prize at the V&A illustration awards with the judges parsing her "utterly engaging" and "meticulously-executed" drawings.

Principles of design: Scale This represents scale because this image shows how big whales are compared to a tiny person kayaking.

“Form finds Symmetry in Geometry” in Zodiac 19, 1969 by Anne Griswold Tyng In Geometric Extensions of Consciousness, published in the Italian architectural journal Zodiac 19 in 1969. In the article,...

The artist uses scale through showing the viewer a known small animal, like a chick, as significantly larger especially when compared to the man. The artist takes something the viewer knows and makes it unfamiliar.

For the Principles of Design I did balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, and rhythm. The hardest I thought was rhythm because you had to combine movement and pattern together.

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Graphic design is much more than learning how to use the tools within Photoshop. It requires an intimate understanding of the relationship between different objects. This series of paper art poster designs by Efil Türk covers 10 design principles that are core to any designer's success. 1. Balance "Balance as a design principle, places the parts of a visual in an aesthetically pleasing arrangement."

Balance in art refers to the distribution of visual weight. Learn more about how to master this key design principle.