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Tag Archives: design elements and principles
Anxiety and Nostalgia: The Art of Aida Muluneh
“We exist between the anxiety of the unknown future and the nostalgia of the familiar past. We bear the burden of our duality.” Photographer Aida Muluneh has spent most of her life without a place to call home. At a … Continue reading
A Simple Line (2)
During this last week I’ve spent time reviewing the content we’ve covered in this blog. Today I want to repost an article from early 2015. I think you’ll find it useful. We all recognize a line. We read lines of … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Elements and Principles
Tagged Alison Saar, art education, art education resource, Art Textbook, design element of line, design elements and principles, design textbook, Foster + Partners, Fritz Panzer, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Justine Khamara, Raffaello Sanzio, Sol LeWitt
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Pattern and Decoration: The Mud Structures of Tiébélé
Burkina Faso is a small landlocked country in West Africa. It was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta. Near the southern border of the country is the small village of Tiébélé. In Tiébélé is a compound of hand-built, … Continue reading
The Design Element Of Space
In today’s blog post we talk about space and how artists have depicted it over the years. You can find our complete discussion of space in Chapter 4 of Design: A Beginner’s Handbook. For this post we will anchor the … Continue reading
Natural Moves
Over the last several weeks I’ve blogged about the design element of Motion (Chapter 15 in Design: A Beginner’s Handbook). In this week’s post you’ll find the work of several artists/designers who employ natural forces to impart movement into their … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Design in the World, Elements and Principles
Tagged Aganetha Dyck, Anthony Howe artist, art installations, Charles Sowers, design elements and principles, design principle of motion, Lisa Park artist, movement, Najjar and Najjar Architects, Ned Kahn artist, Theo Jansen
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The Not So Passive Observer
In a recent post about the design principle of motion I promised that I would present more examples. Today let’s look at viewer activated motion. In these works the artist invites the viewer to become a co-author of the work. … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Elements and Principles
Tagged Aaron Koblin, Aaron Sherwood, Ann Hamilton, Art, Chris Milk, design elements and principles, design principle of motion, HYBE Studio, interactive art, Karina Smigla, Marina Abramovic, Mike Allison, motion, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Roman Ondak, The Exquisite Forest
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Language of Motion Part 2
In last week’s blog post, The Language of Motion, I presented several artists who use the design principle of motion in their work (Chapter 15 in Design: A Beginner’s Handbook). I’d like to use this week to highlight past posts … Continue reading
The Language of Motion
It all started with a bet. Leland Stanford, who went on to found Stanford University, bet that when a horse gallops there is a moment when all four hooves leave the ground. At the time this was nearly impossible to … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Elements and Principles
Tagged Angela Bulloch, Anish Kapoor, Art, Bill Traylor, Damian Ortega, design elements and principles, Eadweard Muybridge, Giacomo Balla, installation art, Jasper Johns, kinetic art, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Kilgallen, motion, movement, painting, Photography, Rebecca Horn, sculpture
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Abandoned, Reclaimed, Transformed: The Art of Nancy Rubins
I first came across the work of Nancy Rubins in the 1980s. My initial response was one of amazement – a 45 foot tall tornado-like form that literally contained everything, including the kitchen sink. Located next to a highway in … Continue reading
Design Exercise: Found Alphabet
Today’s exercise will help you fine tune your powers of observation by finding what I call visual analogies. If you’re reading our book Design: A Beginner’s Handbook pay particular attention to Chapter 2 (Line) and Chapter 3 (Shape). For those … Continue reading