final project :: the designer as creator Finding inspiration from everywhere and anywhere! The potential can be sought out in all things. The hard thing is allowing our minds to open up for their consideration. Objective Throughout the semester you have created works that have fit the guidelines of project specifications while applying your own sense of uniqueness to your independent compositions. For the final assignment, you will be applying the knowledge of the visual elements, concepts and applications we have employed throughout our class together to create a self-designed, directed and created final project. Your final work will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the visual language we have employed and the application of a number of the design concepts in your work. Here are a number of the core concepts we have covered in SA 131 that you will employ: Concepts we have covered Types of Unity: Symmetrical - bilateral / biaxial /
focal point + emphasis isolation + dominance symmetry balance + unity bilateral symmetry divides a composition symmetrically in half either along the vertical or horizontal axis. bilateral vertical symmetry Ed Ruscha, 2002, Step on No Pets This type of design provides for an overall equilibrium in composition and thus, an overall balance + unity, without variety. biaxial symmetry is a composition that has more than 2 axes of symmetry = vertical + horizontal. This guarantees that the composition has balance, both upper and lower parts of the design AND left and right areas of the design along Horizontal or Vertical axis > providing formal balance, and thus, complete unity. Biaxial symmetry has the possibility of more than two axes. Snowflakes and kaleidoscopes have three axes of symmetry and are excellent examples of biaxial symmetry Inverted symmetry uses symmetry with 1/2 inverted design to complete the composition. Du