between_the_dots

As we learnt a little bit about the principles and elements of visual design, here comes the time to present all that we absorbed, in form of a music video in a group of nine, transforming our space and ourselves as elements of the composition......for we aren't in the campus that could have given us a large space to work upon.  WOW! That sounds exciting! But, its diwali time, and the cleaning work has ju......st been finished which I was not part of having stayed at home, parents won't allow. Period. This was the thought going around my head when Kuntal Da was giving us the project brief, the theme is about "Transition" . And there has to be an abstraction which is my forte, just drawing the exact things makes me feel bored, by now you might have understood. Before forming group, the first idea that came in my mind was about a transition from an attitude of rigidity to fluidity as we gain experience of life and gather knowledge. I sketched it in transforming from a ...

After learning the gestalt principle of perception, aesthetics, elements, principles of design, and how to design abstract composition with just two elements we were given few words, out of which we were to translate any two into different abstract composition using any two simple geometrical shapes and lines or dots. This time we had total freedom except that we cannot intersect the shapes. This is the first portion of the exploration. Second portion I would like to discuss later. I picked the first word as 'sweet'. Sweet_ Dreams Sweet, with the sound of the word, melody is felt and next thing that happens is I start travelling to the sweet memories with a packet of dairy milk in hand to a land of dreams. In the first image as you can see, I listed down the associations with the word ‘sweet’, the keywords and painted the first thumbnail. As circle has no edges, its smooth, hence i chose circle with square so that the whole composition is subtle and balanced. Trying out more...

What is a point ?  What is a dot ? In design, a point becomes a dot when it has dimension . A point does not give meaning to the space but a dot does define the space . What is a line ? " A line is a dot went for a walk ."- Paul Klee And then lines come together to make a shape . Shapes coming together to make a form that has space and forms coming together to make a structure. I have studied these in my architecture school but the way Kuntal connects with every other aspects of daily life, the study of elements of design becomes more engaging. Very rightly said by him that designing is like cooking, like you add masalas, let it fry, taste, then decide what is lacking, let the veggies boil or cook according to the quality of those veggies. We had to play with lines and dots measuring 35 mm with 2.5 mm thickness and a dot with with 5 mm diameter. Chaula and Shubhra mentored us all through the process of learning composition. We were meeting twice daily atleast daily in our g...