Get into SHAPE!!!!!

Shape is a visually percived area created either by an enclosing line or by color or value changes defining the outer edge. Shape can also be called form.

Lauer, David A. "Chapter 8 "SHAPE"" Design Basics. 7th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979. 152-53. Print.

FIGURE AND GROUND are words also used to discuss positve and negative space - Ground (negative), Figure (positive). Interior designers work with figure and ground space constantly. We must think about the figure and the form, but also mus see the negative space left around it to determine how we will best utilize the space.


"Moderncat :: Cat Products, Cat Toys, Cat Furniture, and More…all with Modern Style." Fill In the Cat: Design Project by Oscar Nunez | moderncat. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.moderncat.net/2009/06/21/fill-in-the-cat-design-project-by-oscar-nunez/.


Biomorphic Shapes

Shapes derived from organic or natural shapes.


"Amy Lau: Urban Biomorphic." Decorati Access. Web. 13 May 2012. http://access.decorati.com/2008/08/amy-lau/.


Naturalism, Idealism and Distortion

Naturalism....an object or portrait made to naturally look like it's reference.
Idealism... an object or portrait made to enhance the natural.
Distortion...an object or portrait made to have the proportions and forms of its natural reference.


"MARUBENI Art Collection." Thomas Gainsborough "Wooded Landscape with Peasant Courting a Milkmaid" Art Gallery Marubeni Corporation. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.marubeni.com/gallery/painting_f/paint_07.html.


"David (Michelangelo)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Oct. 2012. Web. 13 May 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo).


"Warped Paintings & A Proposition." Visual News. Web. 13 May 2012. http://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/19/warped-paintings-a-proposition/.


NONOBJECTIVE: Nonidentifiable objects, shapes with no object reference and no submect matter suggestion.

"Carpe Diem..." Multiply. Web. 13 May 2012. <http://ultimatekyle.multiply.com/reviews/item/10>.