11. Madeline Hibbert: Similarity-Proximity Collage and Shapes

11. Hibbert: “Similarity-Proximity Collage and Shapes,” Paper/Magazines, Two Dimensional Design, 2015

 

In the first photo, the project was all about utilizing similarities in shapes, colors, sizes, and value while also creating effects of focus with the four proximity types of close edge, touch, overlap and combining. The mission included creating a phrase, using all four proximity types, every letter to be of a different type, and everything had to be cut from magazine except for the background. What was nice about this project was discovering how much close edged objects quickly become identified as groups, but also that largely spaced items can draw attention too.  

For the second photo, This project called for two images to be made of four colors. One to be symmetrical, while the other had to be completely asymmetrical. The first image, granted, was simple with the needs to create different shapes and colors and arrange them in an interesting yet symmetrical design. The second however, was the real focus of the project as it required complete asymmetry, that is, there could be no mirror images within the picture so that there was no 'balance' or hence, symmetry involved. What was neat about this was discovering even how to do this, by starting with different larges shapes/colors, and then working down to smaller shape/colors and dispersing them out in such a way so that the eye never stays or automatically attracts to one part of the picture. Nothing could be put along a center axis, no objects could be directly symmetrically placed in a corner since those are center axises too, and no shape was allowed to continue from another shape because this counted as alignment from an axis as well. Overall, a very enlightening similarity-proximity/ symmetrical/asymmetrical assignment.