Lines in design

LINE STUDY (IN LIFE, NATURE, DESIGN AND ART)

By Naomi Smart (211067113)

Its all about the “Line”…

Lines…How can

something so simple as a mark on a surface show

so much on so many levels…???

Dark, Light, Broken, Thick,

Thin, Layered, In Proximity, Cross

Hatched…Each one of these

techniques can be used to show a

different sense of mood or

movement

They’re all around us….

Straight….Curved

These lines, although simple give a sense of wonderment,

scale, very modern.

Architecture

Helix Hotel Plan - Dubai


Organic lines can feel so light, almost like you can blow them off the

page… They don’t have to be continuous either (connectivity comes in

to play)

Nature

These lines almost feel to me like they just want to continue…

keep “branching off”

Nature



How many Gestalt principles come into play here?

Figure & Ground, continuality…

I love the use of bright colour with a black

outline… eye catching…

ArtArt

They’re all around us….Every Day Life

A simple thing like people queuing….still our eyes see lines. I love the way these steps, in a curvilinear line, almost seem to make you think of the layout, is it a trick of the eye? If this was a flat black and white line image, it would look very different, we wouldn’t see it as steps…


These lines, in Road and train tracks are lines that we see in

every day life, Its just so normal to see that we don’t even think of it. It makes you wonder what else you can over look when you think

about it!!!


Just amazing what differences in colour or even thickness in line can achieve…


Even though this image looks

to be shaded in, its actually

made of differing

lines on a page, using darker lines

closer in proximity

to create a sense of

depth


I love the combination of curvilinear and rectilinear lines….some how they just

work together so well.


Just through colour and simple lines in an image, our mind looks upon this

image as if they were almost tapered (above image) and the right image’s lines and use of colour give a woven

feeling about them.

Optical Illusions


Lines doesn’t just have to be used to draw,

we also use lines when we write…

and sketch


Design