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     WHAT IS DESIGN ?  

The  arrangement of visual and functional elements into an aesthetic whole is called design .....

                             OR

Design can be defind as any arrangement of lines, forms, color, and textures. 

STRUCTURAL DESIGN - Structural design is a form of construction that is built into the cloth during the process of its manufacturing .

DECORATIVE DESIGN -  Decorative or ornamental design is created after the form is complete and is the result of surface enrichment.

 ELEMENTS OF DESIGN 

• LINE 
• SHAPE/FORM 
• SPACE
• TEXTURE
• COLOR/VALUE  

The elements of designing are the factors that are essential to create a design. 

                                                      LINE

• Refers to an  elongated mark that connects two or more points.
• It is the strongest and most important element.
• Without line:

__There can be no shape

__Without shape there can be no form. 

__Without form there can be no texture and no pattern.

• Line can be:

• Vertical 
• Horizontal 
• Diagonal 
• curved
• Zig-zaged
• Thick/Thin
• Tall/short 

Optical illusion through lines

The lines look shorter when lines turn downward and longer when lines continue upward.

    When two or more vertical or horizontal lines are used, the spacing between the lines will affect the illusion created.  

Vertical lines that carry the eye up the figure without interruption will gave a taller, more slender illusion, Lines that stop the eye from traveling upward by moving the eye form side to side or back down will create a shorter and heavier illusion.

 

UNIVERSAL GUIDELINES

The single vertical line moves the eye upward, with nothing to interrupt its movement. 

 

The magic "y" creates a feeling of height as the eye is guided upward, with nothing to impede its vertical motion.

The longer your eye can travel upward without being interrupted by a horizontal line, the tailor the figure will appear.

Two vertical lines spaced close together from a narrow panel that moves the eye up the figure.

A vertical illusion becoms

a horizontal illusion when a 

vertical line is topped with 

a horizontal