Napkin Sketch

Napkin Sketch was our first assignment.
We were asked to draw an architectural sketch on a coctail napkin. We were expected to think about the means of "architectural".

 I thought that architectural something should be well organized, calculated, and correct in itself. And I decided to make an organization using different types of lines in terms of sharpeness and thickness and colour.

Junk Design

In thisexercise assignment was to make a 3-dimensional abstract organization by using only scrap materials. 

 There were given a couple of hours to work. I started to work by finding scrap basic materials which are useless anymore. After I found materials I tried to make an organization by using those materials in different shapes and sizes. This variations I made on material gave me the chance to group elements. 

5a Contrast (concept explaining)

       CONTRAST  VS.  SAMENESS

                                                                                              (http://abduzeedo.com/)

Black vs. white, light vs. dark, hard vs. soft, thick vs. thin, geometric vs. organic, contrast vs. sameness… Contrast means useing opposite qualities together in terms of colour, shape, light, direction, texture etc.. Tention between opposites assists viewers to distinguish elements and understand organization. For instance, some differenciations on colour can make viewers get the three dimentionality of image. This also means that making contrast between elements gives them different characteristics in organization.  So that, contrast has a great potantial for control viewers’ attention and understanding.

                                                                                                       Elif OZKAZANC

5a Dominance (concept explaining)

   

         WHICH DOMİNATES OTHERS

  

                                                                                                       (http://peterpincus.com/)

              In a design, dominant element is the one which catches the first sights. Since that moment viewer starts to think about dominant element while looking at whole. The power of the dominant element comes from its noticiable differences from others. In other words its visual weight. Relatively emphasis in terms of size, shape, colour, texture, direction, density might set visual weight. Besides dominant element there can be also sub-dominant elements which are not emphasised as much as the dominat one but also have big visual weight. Sub-dominant elements also serve as focal points which means that they are the ones to hold viewers attention arround the dominant element. Rather than that there can be also subordinate elements which serve as a background in whole and have the least visual weight.                               

                                                                                                                                     Elif OZKAZANC