VISUAL DESIGN: ELEMENTS OF FORM SERIES PART 3

PART III

PLANES/SHAPES:

Planes can be seen as the connection of adjcent lines. A plane simply adds another dimension to a set of lines that are interconnected to each other.Simply a plane is a connection of lines and dots but it adds another dimension to it. A plane or shape that we see in our enviornment are usually 2 dimensional.But each form or shape carries some visual weightage. 

                                                     Large, simple forms carry a heavy visual weight and appear dotlike. Surfaces with complex contours and interaction with their internal and external space (both positive and negative) carry less weight and become more line-like.

In this image we can how a form is created from lines and in turn forms a shape

Shapes:

Shapes are of typically three types;

• Organic
• abstract
• geometric

A form basically forms a shape through our own understanding. We humans perceive and recognize and categorize shapes into objects when the outer contours bend around and manipulates space.

it's a type of  organic shape

This is a type of abstract shape

types of geometric shapes explained swahilli