Research: Elements and Principles of Design. Due Before Class Jan. 11th.

Intro

The Elements and Principles of Design are the building blocks of visual language. This page is a starting point for your research on the subject. Remember, every author will present a slightly different list of things as "the" elements and "the" principles of design/art. The main thing to remember is that every image, regardless of how complex, can be disassembled into basic core components that are shared by all images. In this sense, all images have a simple shared core language. 

Link to an introduction on Formal Analysis:

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/formal_analysis.html

Basic lists of the Elements of Design and Principles of Design:

Required Reading- Due before class on Wed., Jan 11th. 

Please read the Preface, Chapter 1: Introduction, and Chapter 2: Form of Wucius Wong's Principles of Two Dimensional Design. Here is a link the Wong Text in pdf. Save the pdf to your computer; we will be reading through the entire text this next few weeks. 

Note: the language we are learning will be used to analysis the images in this week's assignments. Do you best, with what we have discussed in-class and with what you will be reading this week.