Day 7
Lesson 7: Framing
(Also a day late: I think i’m going to divide Design Problems into lessons. Or should I count them as homework? Help me out here, I’m indecisive.)
Look around, your vision frames the world around you. Look out a window, and you will see a framed scene, the city street, or the country fields. Here’s what I learned:
- framing: it’s everywhere, cropping, borders, margins, and captions are key to graphic designers
- margins: protect an image or piece of text, draws our attention to it, or with smaller ~ can make objects seem larger than life; can be used for page numbers or running heads
- bleed: images that run off edges of a the page; can bleed off more than one edge; makes an image more active
- image and text: text-less images are open to interpretation; power in words; control of the meaning lies in the use of words; combining text and image begins the start of legibility issues; designers use boxes, bars, transparency, etc., to combat legibility issues
I started taking some shots with my sister’s Nikon. It’s one of those SLR/DSLRs?, forgive me, for I don’t have very much knowledge of cameras. But ever since I read Joanne’s post on her photography exhibition, I don’t want to look at photography as just another thing people do. I feel like it’s very important to the design process for interior designers, graphic designers, and photographers.
I’m glad I get to put my eyes to work in the deign process everyday when I look around me. If you’re reading this through a screen, take a look around, what’s framing this text? this webpage? and the screen you’re looking at?
Understand that we live by some margins in life, but so what if sometimes you break free of those margins. I do my best to bleed off he page by just being me. And that means a lot of things. Haha.
Until Next time.
-RaccaWear Ink
