Practice Tips
How can you not be romantic about design?
Function answers needs—but form can inspire desire, spark emotion, or provoke thought.
A lot of deliberation were settled with a visual,
not with just plain assertions or examples.
Vocabulary
Elements: Points, Lines, Surfaces, Volumes (Geometric-Organic)
Structures: Visible-Invisible, Active or Inactive, Perceived Structures,
Relations: Dominant-Subdominant-Subordinate, Solid-Void, Scale-Proportions-Orientation
Core Principles: Gestalt, Simplicity, Unity, Contrast
More Visual Relations: Harmony, Conflicting, Balance, Similarity, Uniform Connectedness, Repetition, Symmetry, Asymmetry, Continuation, Closure, Proximity, Parallelism, Common Fate (Synchrony), Common Region, Focal Point (Emphasis),
Tips and Tricks: Addition- Subtraction-Transition, Abstraction, Unity (Inserting-Interlocking-Wraping), Functional Exposure, Transition(Diagonal cut, Push)
More Tips: Orientation, Continuity, Direction, Rotation, Static, Movement, Mirroring, Texture,
Psychological-related Tips: Affordance, Tension, Strain and Stress, Thematic Reference, Visual Cue, Closure, Visual Echo, Resonate, Self-expression,
Pursuing Originality
If algorithms are driving design trends, the outputs may start to look similar because they’re all based on the same underlying patterns or visual language. There’s a growing trend of lack of differentiation—design language is increasingly shaped by algorithms. Designers should actively pursue originality and distinctiveness in work.
Step II
design clinic
Prescription 1 - Addition
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Prescription 2 - Continuation and Visual Hierarchy
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Prescription 3 - Mating lines
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Suggested Practices
Primitive Form Study
Ideation Basic
Primitive Form Study
Subtraction and Addition
Primitive Form Study
Shelled Case with Mating Lines
Surface Transition Practice
Transition
Organic Forms
Observations
Organic Forms
Abstraction
