Elements and Composition
Numbers as Visuals: Ways of Exploration
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Shirish Kathale
The main objective of this abstract is to trigger the curiosity and imagination in the verity of age groups of students. It can be explored by any one. Students in art, design, engineering, architecture could easily get involved once they see it happening through the demos or videos. It may generate stories while writing them with live story telling incorporating the numbers that the way they are coming up through the pen, brush, sprays, through Indian sweet Jalebi and even light painting activities! Numbers are known by all; right from childhood. But how many of us tried to break the sequence while writing them or draw them instead of writing! Consider it as visuals and take it ahead not just as a 2 dimensional form but 3 D forms too! Different materials can be used to bring out various forms, perspective, flexibility, stretch ability, numbers of ways are opened as soon it adapts to 3D form. An abstract concept can adapt a form, color, texture, smell (food items), in short there are no limits to its adaptation. It wears the versatility as soon as it steps into 3D form. This is one more possibility to witness and experience the transition of 2D into 3D. Whenever third dimension is added it opens up so many options in life. It becomes a product and invites multiple applications from multiple utilities. It also invites multiple queries with multiple contexts. I am exploring the numbers in 3D.
The Dynamics of Color: An Exploratory Study of Color and Web Code
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Donald Tarallo
The relativity of color opens endless potential for visual study. Simply varying the proportions and quantities of the same colors alters their perception greatly, yet in themselves the colors do not change. How one can teach this in the context of a web class is an ongoing question I investigate. This paper examines a color project students carried out in an introductory web design course. This experiential assignment focused on the development of the students’ eye for color and composition; both on screens and in the general sense. Additionally, this immersed students in a state of play with diverse aspects of computer code relevant to today’s web design and digital media. Reflections address the relevance of color to create the illusion of depth on screens, learning through play, the value of elementary ways of seeing in technical complexity, and historically important practitioners and writers on color, such as Josef Albers and Johannes Itten.
Information Design as a Means of Visual Communication: How Graphic Designers can Communicate Complex Data Clearly and Effectively
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rozina Vavetsi
For the past twenty years, I’ve been immersed in the world of graphic design, first as a student, then as a designer, then as a design educator and now as a chair of the Digital Design Department at the New York Institute of Technology. These experiences have given me four different perspectives on the world of art, design, visual communication and technology. Observing and embracing this exciting evolution, design schools realize that their curricula must break disciplinary boundaries and introduce innovative courses to help students deal with the ever-changing demands of our world and become effective communication designers, extraordinary visual artists, incredible storytellers. My paper will focus on the importance of information design as a means of visual communication. Through case studies from the professional world and the classroom, it will highlight the visualization methods used for presenting complex information that is communicated clearly and effectively.
