Tag: Gestalt Principles
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Semester Project

I am currently working on my semester project, therefore I have been a bit quite on the blog front. So far I have delivered a product description about my client, logo design, which products I am going to design, justification and challenges with the design. I have also delivered a work schedule for my semester…
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CA – Strategic Design 1

I submitted my final design and report on thursday 1 of december, one day before the deadline. After intense work with the design for Fra GĂĄrd I just shut down a little while, so I didn’t post about it right away here on the blog. I could reveal right now that I have got the…
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CA1 – Book Cover Design

I have been working on this brief for several weeks, and used the two last weeks to finalize the book cover and my comprehensive report. The brief stated that a new book cover for «The Seven Dials Mystery» by Agatha Christie, should be made with a minimum number of colours, include the number 7 and…
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3.2 Typography 2

The last week I used a lot of time learning about typography, and how to manipulate text in Illustrator. The lecture videos looked easy and simple to follow, but I got a really hard time with the 3D effect lecture. I used two days to just figure it out, and that’s kind of embarrasing. However,…
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MA02 – Using Ideation Techniques And Sketching

For this assignment I ended up with using two different ideation techniques, «Morphological analysis» and «Consequences». I need to come up with ideas for my course assignment, where I am creating a new book cover for «The Seven Dials Mystery» by Agatha Christie. As you can see in my morphological analysis I chose to work…
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MA01 – Visual Interpretation

For this project my brief was to create a visual interpretation of the number 7 using Gestalt principles. The creations are made by hand, with paper, pencil, scissors and markers. I also used the nature as a background. I have shared the work on forum and asked for feedback from teachers and other students. I…
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1.4 Gestalt Principles

Gestalt is a psychology term founded on works by Max Werheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka in the 1920’s. Gestalt is a german word and means «form» interpreted as «configuration», a unified whole. «According to gestalt psychology, the whole is different from the sum of it’s parts» The hypothesis is that people tend to organize…
