Design Principle / Week 1: Exercise 1 - Contrast And Gestalts Theory

24.8.2021 // Week 1
Yong Li Qing Vernice / 0352288
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Design Principle
Exercise 1
LECTURE LINK


INSTRUCTIONS
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EXERCISE PROCESS

Week 1 - Exercise 1: Contrast And Gestalts Theory

Visual Research - Contrast

For my contrast design, I found a picture that I had saved before on my computer and I had tried to find different kinds of similar pictures from it. 

Figure 1 Reference
Figure 2 Reference

My concept for this design is to stand out a lonely girl who had lived in with her big family but she was never happy although she looks fine in others she always keeps herself on her own in her room to make herself comfortable. So the light in the design had shown as a small area of hers and besides, that blue area had contrasted the negative feeling in her heart.

Figure 3 First Sketch
Figure 4 First Sketch with details

Figure 5 Digital Sketch

Figure 6 Colour in Adobe Photoshop

Figure 7 Colour in Adobe Photoshop

Figure 8 Colour in Adobe Photoshop
Figure 9 Colour in Adobe Photoshop

Figure 10 Colour in Adobe Photoshop

Figure 11 Colour in Adobe Photoshop adding shadow

Figure 12 Colour in Adobe Photoshop adding another layer to darken the shadow 
Figure 13 Colour in Adobe Photoshop adding another layer to darken the shadow

Final Outcome - Contrast


Figure 14 Final Outcome for Contrast Design

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Figure 15 Final Outcome for Contrast Design in PDF

Visual Research - Gestalts Theory 

In Gestalts Theory I had chosen Figure and Ground as my exercise topic, and I had found some interesting pictures for my design. 


Figure 16 Reference

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Figure 18 Reference
The concept for this design is to say that mother nature is sick because of the problems caused by humans. By using negative space to show the difference between the two of them. Hence, this design is formed by a heartbeat graft, the idea by using heartbeat is because I would like to show that the more we, humans developed in the city the meantime the same had happened in nature and there will be nothing left while the heartbeat had stopped.


Figure 19 First Sketch

Figure 20 Materials for the design

Figure 21 First sketch on the design paper

Figure 22 Done Cutting out

Figure 23 Place the paper on the final process

Final Outcome - Gestalts design

Figure 24 Final Outcome for Gestalts design

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Figure 25 Final Outcome for Gestalts design in PDF


FEEDBACK

Week 1 - 
In this topic try to put the main object more focused for others can be easier to know the fact that we like to share with others.

REFLECTIONS
For this topic, I found difficulties and challenges for me although I had learnt it before when I was in high school in a different language but it is great that I can learn it all over again to have a better knowledge of it.

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