exercises

EXERCISE ONE

Create 4 rectangles on an A4 sheet. Create a different type of line inside each box.

In the blank under each box, come up with a name for the line within. 

EXERCISE TWO

Divide your A4 sheet into six boxes.

Using a variety of lines, in each box create an emotion. In all you should have six emotions represented by a composition made of lines.

EXERCISE THREE

Choose four themes, preferably single words.

Create four rectangles and using points or dots, bring about an expression of the four themes you have chosen. Keep in mind the principles of design.

EXERCISE FOUR

In box 1, create a design with Geometrical Shapes

In box 2, create a design with Organic Shapes

In box 3, use a combination of a triangle, a square and a sphere to demonstrate stability.

In box 4, use a combination of a triangle, a square and a sphere to demonstrate dynamism.

EXERCISE FIVE

Draw 10 squares of 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm. Draw inside each of them a black beam of 10mm by 1.5 mm.

Place the black beam inside the box to demonstrate the following qualities:

Light – heavy – floating – unstable – rising – descending – distant – nearby – exciting – weak

Rearrange the boxes with the beam inside to tell the story of  “The Beam in the Box’.

 MINI PROJECT ONE – PORTRAITS

Create a poster that is your self-portrait using dots, lines, and the basic shapes of triangle, rectangle, circle. You are free to use colours too.

EXERCISE SEVEN – SUBTRACTION

Subtract. Simplify. Omit, remove certain parts or elements. Take something away from your subject. Compress it or make it smaller.
Think: What can be eliminated, reduced, disposed of? What rules can you break? How can you simplify, abstract, stylize or abbreviate?

EXERCISE EIGHT – REPETITION
Repeat. Repeat a shape, color, form, image or idea. Reiterate, echo, restate or duplicate your reference subject in some way. Think:
How can you control the factors of occurrence, repercussion, sequence and progression?

MINI-PROJECT TWO – ANIMATION

Using Photoshop, Flash or 2D animation software of your choice, create an animation of between 15 and 30 seconds using the principles of visual design, elements of design, points/dots, lines, shapes. Create it either for visual impact or, better still, see if it can tell a story of sorts. Deadline January 18, 2016.

Refine the animation. Present the iteration, as close to a completed animation, on January 21, 2016.

EXERCISE NINE – TRANSFORMATION

Find or draw an image. In a series of transformations, turn the image into another image that is altogether different. Try to do it in such a way that it demonstrates the synectic principle of the paradoxical analogy. All the images must flow one into the other. This exercise will familiarise you with the ideas of transitions, transformations, paradoxical analogy and result, hopefully, in a startling image.

EXERCISE TEN – CHOOSE YOUR OWN SYNECTIC TRIGGERS

From the list of synectic triggers, choose two triggers for yourself to work with. Create two images to demonstrate your understanding of the two triggers you have chosen. Bring them to class on January 25, 2016.

EXERCISE ELEVEN – IDENTIFYING LOGOS, PATHOS AND ETHOS

Choose and bring to class 6 posters altogether of which 2 posters each must represent Logos, Pathos and Ethos as factors that drive Design as Rhetoric, aimed at persuading audiences to buy into your text-image argument.

EXERCISE TWELVE – POSTERS ON LOGOS, PATHOS, ETHOS

Come up with 3 separate posters that demonstrate the use of the rhetorical devices of Logos, Pathos and Ethos respectively and how they help in the process of persuasion. You should be able to show the iterative process.

EXERCISE THIRTEEN – PRIMARY COLOURS

Come up with a striking, original composition that uses only the primary colours – Red, Blue and Yellow.

EXERCISE FOURTEEN – BLACK AND WHITE

Come up with a striking, original composition that uses black and white.

EXERCISE FIFTEEN – COLOUR WHEEL

Create a colour wheel that demonstrates your understanding of the primary colours, secondary colours and tertiary colours.