GOAL:

To understand the elements & principles of art & design and become comfortable & deliberate using raster & vector based tools.

DISCUSSION & PRACTICE:

Elements of Art & Design Slides

Designing w/ Artboards in Photoshop

(we’ll have a whole lesson on this in the future)

READ:

ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES

• • Design Elements: Line
  • 6 Tips for Designing with Lines

• • Design Elements: Shape
  • Using Shapes in Design

• • Space
  • How to Use Space in Design

• • Color Theory for Designers: The Meaning of Color
  • Basic Color Theory

• • Design and Composition: Texture
  • Design Elements: Texture
  • Using texture to get the most out of design

• • How to use size, scale, and proportion
  • Elements of Design: Scale

• • Elements of Design: Balance
  • Design Principles: Balance

• • Design Principles: Harmony
  • Balance, Rhythm, and Harmony

Ten Principles of Good Design, Dieter Rams

Elements of Art, The Getty Museum

WATCH:

Learning from Powers of Ten

“The ‘Powers of Ten’ also represents a way of thinking—of seeing the interrelatedness of all things in our universe. It is about math, science and physics, about art, music and literature. It is about how we live, how scale operates in our lives and how seeing and understanding our world from the next largest or next smallest vantage point broadens our perspective and deepens our understanding.”
—Powers of Ten website