Principles of Design: Movement
Movement: The principle of design dealing with the creation of action.
It causes the viewers eye to travel around the artwork.
It causes the viewers eye to travel around the artwork.
Creating Movement with Alignment
Direction by Alignment : alignment implies a direct link from one independent object to another independent object. For example, the text on this page runs in a tight sequence of letters and words on an imaginary horizontal path.
Exercise #1
Empty out your pockets or your backpack onto a table top. Arrange everything along an imaginary center axis, either vertically or horizontally. Overlap a few items to create some variety. Take a few pics, overhead, including a variety of angles.
Exercise #1
Empty out your pockets or your backpack onto a table top. Arrange everything along an imaginary center axis, either vertically or horizontally. Overlap a few items to create some variety. Take a few pics, overhead, including a variety of angles.
Next, rearrange your items along an imaginary line. Take a few pics, overhead, including a variety of angles and closeups.
Look for other objects around the house that might be more interesting to photograph.
You can also add visual interest by cropping the image, exploring different angles, rotate the image or change the overall orientation of each image.
Create at least three variations considering the best center alignment image and the best common edge alignment image.
You can also add visual interest by cropping the image, exploring different angles, rotate the image or change the overall orientation of each image.
Create at least three variations considering the best center alignment image and the best common edge alignment image.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/painstaking-new-arrangements-of-colorful-objects-and-food-by-emily-blincoe/
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/everyday-objects-obsessively-organized-into-patterns-by-adam-hillman/
Creating Movement with Fracturing
Fractured space can express Movement. Anytime you watch a movie or TV show, something about what you’re watching has likely been edited, spliced, trimmed or reconfigured. This is fracturing at its core and at its most everyday. Think of fast forwarding through a video.
Exercise #2
Find a simple yet strongly graphic image from a magazine or a photo you have taken.
Subdivide the imagery with scissors or digitally into a pattern squares.
Rearrange your squares in a way that hints at the original layout but creates a more rhythmical and dynamic composition than the original. It’s all about how you arrange the squares continuously and non-continuously. No overlapping; no gaps.
optional - Subdivide one or two squares into for variety.
Find a simple yet strongly graphic image from a magazine or a photo you have taken.
Subdivide the imagery with scissors or digitally into a pattern squares.
Rearrange your squares in a way that hints at the original layout but creates a more rhythmical and dynamic composition than the original. It’s all about how you arrange the squares continuously and non-continuously. No overlapping; no gaps.
optional - Subdivide one or two squares into for variety.
Examples from:
https://www.designprinciples101.com/lessons-and-exercises/exploring-unity-composition/
https://www.designprinciples101.com/lessons-and-exercises/exploring-unity-composition/