I wanted to do something very similar– tiny bricks merging to form a bigger picture, much like a mosaic– but quickly discovered that this is difficult to do if you don’t know Processing and waited until the day before the assignment is due to learn.
So I tried my best, and will definitely hit the books this weekend to learn Processing!
Theme and Variation Sketch
Theme and Variation
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
For this assignment we were supposed to create a black-and-white Processing sketch and use two variables, a string and integer, as the inputs. I looked at Sol Lewitt’s work for inspiration:
I wanted to do something very similar– tiny bricks merging to form a bigger picture, much like a mosaic– but quickly discovered that this is difficult to do if you don’t know Processing and waited until the day before the assignment is due to learn.
So I tried my best, and will definitely hit the books this weekend to learn Processing!
Theme and Variation Sketch
I wanted to do something very similar– tiny bricks merging to form a bigger picture, much like a mosaic– but quickly discovered that this is difficult to do if you don’t know Processing and waited until the day before the assignment is due to learn.
So I tried my best, and will definitely hit the books this weekend to learn Processing!
Theme and Variation Sketch
Saul Bass
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Our assignment was to pick a work from either Saul Bass or Paul Rand that we liked, and explain why.
Below is an illustration from a children’s book, Henri’s Walk to Paris, which Saul Bass illustrated in 1962.
It’s understated, simple, and playful. If I’m remembering correctly, the books I read as a kid were bursting with primary colors, and it was a little overwhelming and borderline tacky. Sometimes there would be so much color and activity that my eyes wouldn’t know where to focus. In this illustration, he only uses a few basic, yet unique, colors– purple, green, yellow, and white.
I also liked the amount of detail he put into the typography. I liked how the font is uppercase, but the sentences don’t scream, which I think is difficult to do. He uses a simple, sans-serif font to form the woman’s svelte body, the man’s Pinocchio-esque profile, and bus. The woman’s hat looks like it’s made from X’s and O’s, and it’s bold, so it acts as sort of a starting point for the page. In English, we naturally read from left to right, top to bottom, and I like that his use of white, the most contrasting color on this page, follows this flow as well.
It’s understated, simple, and playful. If I’m remembering correctly, the books I read as a kid were bursting with primary colors, and it was a little overwhelming and borderline tacky. Sometimes there would be so much color and activity that my eyes wouldn’t know where to focus. In this illustration, he only uses a few basic, yet unique, colors– purple, green, yellow, and white.
I also liked the amount of detail he put into the typography. I liked how the font is uppercase, but the sentences don’t scream, which I think is difficult to do. He uses a simple, sans-serif font to form the woman’s svelte body, the man’s Pinocchio-esque profile, and bus. The woman’s hat looks like it’s made from X’s and O’s, and it’s bold, so it acts as sort of a starting point for the page. In English, we naturally read from left to right, top to bottom, and I like that his use of white, the most contrasting color on this page, follows this flow as well.