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Gridded


Enviado por   •  28 de Mayo de 2015  •  Apuntes  •  313 Palabras (2 Páginas)  •  109 Visitas

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We experience grids in multiple ways everyday: from the organization of the streets in our cities, the weaving patterns created by the threads of the clothes we are wearing, to the smaller framework of pixels that translate into visual information in our screens.

The grid is not only a visual system of vertical and horizontal lines intersecting, or a methodology to organize the elements of a composition; it is of such great importance that it has even become a metaphor for all that is considered right in the world: if something is created within the grid, it is most likely that people will find it attractive, organized, and easy to understand.

The grid is a principle that has its origins in the constant desire of humans to find meaning, an important characteristic that differentiates us from other species. Perhaps the grid is a way to create structure of informational elements (either text or images) in order to convey meaning to an audience.

Why do humans tend to look for evenness, perfection and symmetry even amongst the things that simply do not function in that way? Why are we attracted to symmetry in facial features when we look at someone else? Perhaps control and clarity help the brain process and image or object and in contrast to messy or disorganized compositions that might be harder to understand immediately. “The perception of symmetry might be an illusion derived from the brains tendency to create shortcuts and the visual simplicity of regular geometric solids results in their being less attention grabbing.”

The grid is related to perspective drawing principles that help achieve the right proportions of a sketch, and the very first examples can be traced back to Renaissance painting. “…while this may seem really far from something like a page layout, it was this mix of architecture and visual representation that first produced the grid.

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