ACTION VERBS

Energize

            The first thing I think of when I think about energize and design are diagonal lines.  Diagonal lines add energy to a composition.  Other lines such as loose, gestural lines also add energy.  A pop of color that enhances your overall design can also add energy to your overall composition. 

Compose

            This week in Perception and Communication we have been working on creating a composite drawing on either Fallingwater or Monticello.  I chose to do Fallingwater because it had a stronger impact on me during our trip.  Unlike our past compositions and projects adhesives were not issues here because in a composite piece all of the drawing, pictures and information and applied directly to the paper.  For the group project we did about buildings around campus my group used a blown up picture of our building, Ferguson, sliced into three parts with the name incorporated into the graphic.  This type of super graphic is a graphic that unifies the composition and portrays the essence of the subject of the composition.   While making our composite drawings we also found fonts that were congruent to our topic.  All of these are parts that make the drawing successful as a whole.  As designers we often habitually layout our compositions.  We use matrix and grids and play with colors, super graphics, fonts and styles and compose these in a way that successfully projects the meaning and subject of our design. 

Shape

            The word shape reminds me a lot of revise because throughout our design process we shape our overall design concept as well as speculating the small details of our design.

Speculate

            Designer are detail people. We point out small flaws, fine-tune the little thing to make something more successful overall. We speculate everything.  Details are what make a design so successful.