Currently Reading: Chapter 19 and 20 of Language of Graphic Design
I never thought empty space was so friggin complicated. To be honest, a good bit of the chapter went over my head, although I got the gist of it. I tried studying for an hour, and my brain feels like it's going to explode. I'm actually started taking notes today. And low and behold I'm getting more information (I learn by writing things down who knew) and I diffidently learned a lot more. The con to this is that I feel that my head is about to explode with too much information (and subsequently starring at a screen for a long time, it's a problem). So I'm going back to doing a chapter a day, but now with notes.
I'm not done with the learning about Figure and Ground. As I mentioned before I already read up on the gestalt theory, but I need to really get handle positive and negative space, and active and passive space before I move on.
This last past week has been fraught with personal and family issues, so I was tempted to just skip, but I didn't want that little dialogue saying I dropped the ball. So I sucked it up and studied. I will be back tomorrow for some more reading on figure and ground and on the exciting subject of Frames.
The thing about this book, with all the photos of the projects of graphic designers really just pulls that wannabe designer in me. I want to create that, but I don't have the skills yet. *shakes fist up the air* So not easy.
FYI: I need to actual buy school supplies for schoolish things. Just saying.
Supplemental Reading
- Design Principles: Space And The Figure-Ground Relationship
- Positive and Negative Space
- How To Activate Space In A Design
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