Elements and Principles of 3-Deminsional Design

I decided to use my bamboo placemats as my example for variety because of the different colors of bamboo present horizontally in the design. The placemat’s design has a lots of visual interest because of the element of variety. The contrasting color's of the bamboo range from dark to light hues and are not in any specific order. Although there is not a true pattern to the bamboo in the placemat the seam that occurs vertically across the placemat give the photograph unity and repetition. The use of perspective and light gives the object a sense of depth. The object has many linear elements created by the bamboo and the seam that holds the bamboo in place. I used a very close angle, cropped out all distractions, and increased the definition.

I took a picture of the recycling center on Horn in the West to represent unity because here we have to sort everything by similarities. The day I went to the recycling center the plastic only section was completely overflowing, but all the similar recyclable materials were still grouped together showing unity. I intensified this principle by cropping right outside of the pile of plastic and then I blurred all the edges to all the viewer to focus on the idea of unity.