Project Overview

 

Theme: Discover, define, and visualize the importance of Texture for all areas of design. 

Problem: Create one 9 boxes on 9×12 bristol paper. Look around to find the 9 different textures and rub with a charcoal pencil to get different textures in each box.

Materials: 8.5 x 11 paper & 9″ x 12″ tracing paper, 14″ x 17″ Bristol Paper, Charcoal Pencil 557-4B soft sheet, Graphite Pencils, Pigma Micron Sharpies set, & ruler/t-square

Concepts: Value, Texture, Actual texture, Visual Texture, grayscale, achromatic, Monochrome, gradation, contrast, narrow value, broad value, high key, & low key

Technical Skills: mind map, thumbnail sketching, measuring with a ruler, inking.

1. Discover

  • Research texture patterns
  • Search in Pinterest
  • Take a look at Gego’s texture patterns
  • Read Ellen Lupten’s Book: Graphic Design Thinking Beyond Brainstorming 
  • Write a list of words that represent all of the textures you’ve found, such as smooth, soft, prickly, sharp, rough etc.

2. Define

Vocabulary

  • VALUE- Design Element; the degree of lightness or darkness in a color (hue) or the steps from white to black in an achromatic (no color) scale or palette.
  • MONOCHROME PALETTE: One hue from the color wheel, with adjacent blends, tints, shades, tones. For instance, a Monochrome of Red can include red-orange and red-violet, and all tints and shades of those hues.
  • CHROMATIC GRAYS- gray tones that have some neutral color. In paint, chromatic grays are made using complementary color pairs mixed plus white.
  • TONE: colors plus gray (mix of black and white) to create neutrals.
  • TEXTURE— Design Element: the feel of things, the surface tactile sensation; such as roughness, smoothness, gritty, silky etc. ACTUAL texture is a real material surface that has tactile sensation such as sandpaper, cotton ball,  vs VISUAL texture, which is a picture – photo or illustration OF a textured surface.
  • DESIGN PRINCIPLES:
  • GRADATION- slow incremental change between two elements (dark to light, color to color, big to small shape etc)
  • CONTRAST: large change in element – big/small, dark/light, long/short etc
  • TEXTURE — also look for as much contrast in TEXTURE in your photographs. Natural textures, human, manmade etc etc.

3. Develop

  • Create one 12 boxes on 8.5″ x 11″ paper. Look around to find the 12 different textures and rub with a charcoal pencil to get different textures in each box.
  • Use 8.5″ x 11″ tracing paper to the outline shapes of the 6 different textures
  • Now on 14″ x 17″ Bristol paper, glue the 6 textures of your choice on one side of the bristol. Create a rectangular shape on the other half with 6 boxes with a pencil. 
  • Flip the tracing paper to outline the shapes with Charcoal pencil 557-4B soft or any other pencil that will leave a residue. This will have residue once you flip the paper to a rectangular shape and trace the paper with graphite pencils to transfer the shapes. 
  • With Pigma Micron Sharpies, fill in the positive shapes to create negative shapes

4. Deliver

Submitting in your work

  • Follow the Submitting Your Work guidelines and include the project-specific details below:
  • Post Title: Texture Collage and Drawings/Rubbings
  • Images: Organize your post to include all content from the three other Design Process phases for this project. Create headings for each phase and include images or a gallery, where appropriate:
    • Discover: Read through the Project description; Discover what patterns you see in your surrounding
    • Define: Rubbings and Texture Drawings
    • Develop: Create Collage
    • Deliver: Post and Critique
  • Written Project Reflection: In the Deliver section of your post, document your thoughts about this project. Think about what you learned, what you could have done better (planning, material use, craft), and how you will apply what you learned to your next project. Consider and respond to the comments made in class during the critique.
  • Category and Tags:
    • Category = COMD1100 Project #4
  • Providing Feedback
  • Part of your Project grade is leaving well-written comments for at least one of your peers. Follow the Providing Feedback for specific guidelines for leaving constructive feedback. Search for:
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