designing your composition’s artwork
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Designing your composition’s Artwork. Principles of Design. Principles of Design. How do you consume music?. What do you see?. Brainstorming. What images of cover art come to your mind ? Let’s look those up… Google Image Search. What do you like about those images? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Principles of Design
DESIGNING YOUR COMPOSITION’S ARTWORK
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
How do you consume music?
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
What images of cover art come to your mind?Let’s look those up…
Google Image Search
BRAINSTORMING
What do you like about those images? How do the images inform or relate to the
music?
Task: You will create a work of art that will symbolize your composition.
You will hand in the following:• Rough sketch of your idea that itemizes the materials
you will need to gather to create your artwork;• The final copy of your artwork on 8 ½ x 11” paper; and• A rationalization of your design choices based on the
principles of design discussed in the class.
YOUR TASK
Basic Design Principles A design must have:
• Balance
• Proportion
• Rhythm
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
BalanceBisymmetrical:• Draw a line through the centre, and
both sides are the same.
Asymmetrical:• Draw a line through the centre, and
both sides are different, but both sides are given the same weight or importance.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
BALANCE: BISYMMETRICAL
BALANCE: ASYMMETRICAL
Proportion: The relationship of the size of each part of the design to the other parts:
• Sizes of items should complement each other;
• No strict rules, but it should be pleasing to the eye, or out of proportion for effect.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
PROPORTION
Rhythm: the force that leads our eye from one part of the design to another and evokes an emotional response
*** This is very important for music artwork design!
• A still image can makes us feel calm or relaxed;
• A busy image can make use feel excited or anxious.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
RHYTHM
RHYTHM
These elements are what help create the Principles of Design:
• Line;• Colour;• Value;• Texture;• Space.
ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Line:
• Helps create an emotional response;
• Exact, clear and forceful;
• Sketchy, angular and aggressive;
• Flowing, smooth and gentle.
DESIGN ELEMENTS: LINE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: LINE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: LINE
Colour:• Helps create emotional response:• Vibrant, warm colors (red and orange) = strong
emotions;• Cool colours (blue) = calm, peaceful feeling;
• Identical designs have a very different impact when published in different colours;
• Also consider the way colours work together or work against each other.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
Value: • The lightness or darkness of
colours;
• The value of a colour can change its emotional response.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS: COLOUR AND VALUE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: COLOUR AND VALUE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: COLOUR AND VALUE
Texture:• Can help influence emotional response;• Life experience tells us how things feel;• After we know, we only need to see objects
to know how they feel;• The effect of a smooth, shiny surface is quite
different from a rough, dull one – quite often, the contrast is very effective.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS: TEXTURE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: TEXTURE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: TEXTURE
Space:
• The play between empty-space and filled-space;
• Can have very diverse emotional responses.
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS: SPACE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: SPACE
DESIGN ELEMENTS: SPACE
Image
Title of the Composition
Band Name or Composer’s Name
SO WHAT DO YOU NEED?
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS
DESIGN ELEMENTS