Week 12. Motion.

#1 Magazine Cover

The first design element I chose is a magazine cover, this cover has a strong sense of implied movement. It is very successful at creating the movement. The arrows of the cover communicate the movement and change, the different colors of arrows has a illusion of depth. Every different color each arrow has makes the line create the motion under a different perspective. This cover is certainly a visual with implied movement that creates the continuation of the shape and patterns. The weaknesses of this image is the not about the motions these arrows created. But the entire composition, for the first image, the composition of the title and the image will have a better unity if aligned on the left and right side of the edge. With the arrows extent to the left over the edge of the title. Our eyes will focus on the image first before the title, which defeats the purpose of the headline. The second image on the other hand, has a great spread on the page creates an even and consistent visual space.

#2 Poster

I'm interested in the fields of graphic design, the posters are very visual and eye catching, but sometimes, the poster can go very wrong with the inappropriate movement. I spotted this poster on one of my visits to the dentist in Fremont.

The purpose of the poster is to send the message, although it is a still poster without significant movement element, but it has made to illustrate a clear eye movement for the viewers, to clearly read the content. But this poster has so many elements not connecting each other result a bad navigation on the entire poster because each element doesn't connect to another. First of all, the 7 images are shattered in 3-4 different spots of the poster gives it a very busy feeling. The biggest image on the top of the poster is supposed to be the dominant image, but the purpose of that image isn't clear enough. On the other hand, the visual movement should start from the title of the poster, but this poster got the most important message "Invisalign Day" hidden in the middle between different images. It's difficult to identify this to be th main title of the poster. Also confuses the eye to know which direction to go for. The groupings are not clear, the alignment of the subtitles isn't consistent. Overall, there are so much design set up that needs to fix in order to stimulate eye movement and create smooth visual flow for this effective poster.