Design Principles Exercise 1

 A summary of lecture topics 

Gestalt principle and contrast principle

• Gestalt principle

In the field of design alone, gestalt theory can extract seven principles: simplicity, intimacy, similarity, closure, continuity, subject and background, and common destiny. The principle of simplicity refers to the fact that people can visually decompose complex objects into simpler (and more symmetrical) objects to understand them.

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• Contrast principle

Opposites, abstractly, mean that the elements in an ideograph system can have different ideograph functions not because of the relationship between these elements and their signified, but only because they can be distinguished from each other.

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Vision research

 

fig 1.3 The inspiration for the Contrast Principle (save from Pinterest)

fig 1.4 The inspiration for the Gestalt Principle(save from Pinterest)

. my design process:

• Inspired by an entry in smartidea cool Design Competition, the original work was inspired by a science fiction film "Oblivion".I replaced the robots representing science and technology in the original work with medical workers, and replaced the evil ones with novel Coronavirus, reflecting the most important antagonistic relationship in today's society.  fig(1.6)

• visual research:Use different spikes to form a bomb,idea exploration and description:Inspiration is a child's toy, like a hammer. fig(1.5)

Final work

fig1.5  Gestalt Principle

fig 1.6  Contrast principle

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