Folder Project

Symmography Design

Folder Cover Design

The Assignment You will create a design for the cover of a storage folder made from folding a large sheet of paper. The cover design will be based using an initial from Your first/last

name. You will use techniques of symmography (connecting 2 points with line forming shapes). The design maybe

enhanced with colored pencil or crayons.

Symmography is a type art that is characteried by an arrangement of line that extend from points to form abstract geometric patterns.

Here are some examples of Symmography

Though straight lines are formed by the string, the slightly different angles and metric positions at which strings intersect may give the appearance of Bézier curves A Bézier curve is a parametric curve frequently used in computer graphics and related fields.  Bézier curves are used to model smooth curves that can be scaled indefinitely. "Paths," as they are commonly referred to in image manipulation programs, Bézier curves were widely publicized in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies at Renault.

What can you do with a Graph and Grids?

Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American painter,

developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.

Precisionism took for its main themes industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape, the structures of which

were depicted in precise, sharply defined geometrical forms.

Paul Klee

Paul Klee 

December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a painter born in Switzerland, and is considered

to be a German-Swiss. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that

included expressionism ,cubism, and surrealism.

Making You Own Designs.Working from these basic shapes, you can experiment on

paper and make upyour own designs. Draw out your patterns full size on graph

paper using a dotto represent each position. Then join up the dots with pencil

linesto obtain an idea of the finished result.

Lets try one of the simple ones first.

Curve from straight lines: Twolines, drawn at 90° to eachother, are divided up equallyinto a number of points, inthis case eleven in each.By drawing a line from Al toBl, A2 to B2, A3 to B3 etc acurve will be formed. Thecloser the dots are broughttogether, the smoother thecurve will be. Exactly thesame effect can be achievedwith nails and yarn, each dotrepresenting the nail and theline representing the yarn.

Cross from four lines: One angle istaken a step further, with fourlines at right angles to each otherforming a cross. Providing thatthere are the same numbers ofdots in each line, the curve canbe achieved. With the nails inposition, thread this design witha single piece of yarn starting atposition Al, taking the yarnround Bl and Cl, and continuingin numerical order until all thepins are engaged with yarn.

What Students Need to Know What Students Need to Do

How to use a ruler to measure. Use rulers, compass, and protractor as needed.

Understand the nature of symmographic design.

Fold paper for design format.

How to fold paper to make a folder. Complete Project Development worksheet for Initial.

Understand how the principle of Balance with effect design.

Label folder with Name and Block #.

Understand and appreciate how design effects functional objects that we use daily.

Fill design with color.

Art work by artists Klee and Demouth.

Read selected text on symmography.