Expanding the Universe- through Abstraction
One of my favorite design exercises starts by drawing a simple design (you can see the trials above) and then after one is chosen, I divide the composition into sections. In the examples below, the design gets increasingly complex as the composition is divided in half and then in half again, and so on. It's always a gamble as to how far to go. Sometimes the original design is the best, but if you choose a composition as I did, that you don't like very much, then it opens up new possibilities and new relationships between line and shapes. This design incorporates the grid in the horizontal and vertical divisions. You can also see that leaving space between the sections adds another element of line. the first ink drawing divided in half and rearranged divided into 4 sections divided into 8 sections By the time you get this many pieces, 16 shapes, you have quite a design puzzle. What's next? I could keep arranging, looki...
