Visual Logic Exercise - Project #5

“Emotion, subjective interpretation, and hand gestures are what humans can contribute and computer’s expert systems can not. Highly technological societies will likely put a premium on subjective human values. This suggests the possibility of a renewed appreciation and new applications of our earlier, intuitive, image-oriented, and generated design approaches. Design as a cultural activity, including aesthetic and personal expression, may be the essential source of values, emotions, and play that we all need in the digital domain.”       
                                – Katherine McCoy, Co-Director, Cranbrook Graduate Design Program

“I agree with the Bauhaus masters that form is the essential building block of design, although I do not subscribe to any absolute interpretation beyond direct sensation. From this sensation trickles emotion and language, and from language flows narrative and meaning, which then flood into identity, society, and the political, commercial, and the environmental world. But it all must start with form.”       
                                – Martin Venezky, …it is beautiful… then gone, Appetite Engineers 






Formal / Semantic Relationship Exercise


Select 16 of the 19 images posted below, and visually organize them on an 10x10 composition using a 2 inch modular grid. Use the grid to create structure and establish hierarchy. Size, crop, arrange, juxtapose and position them with some sense of VISUAL LOGIC, taking advantage of the formal relationships between the images to express a semantic message.
• Post the composition on your blog for the 9/17 class.
• Be sure to BRING your working design file to class.