4/2/2010 11:44 AM
Hayat Elashi wrote:
Another example of aesthetic bias is perfume or cologne ads. I am going to use cologne as an example. Ads usually show women after n all over men that gives an impression that if you wear this cologne the same will happen to you. Like this pic:
Another example is AXE ads and commercials. Reply to this
4/10/2010 9:27 PM
Joe Freeland wrote:
For my example for aesthetic bias 2, I chose to photograph an example of the Fibonacci sequence. I was lucky as a friend of mine actually has real seashells as decorations in her bathroom, and the spiral of a seashell follows the sequence.
4/13/2010 1:49 PM
Hayat Elashi wrote:
My example above was a mistake. I took this picture a while ago and realized it showed an example of a Fibonacci sequence. The flower has two examples of the sequence.
I choose a simple optical illusion to demonstrate Constancy and with subversive distortion. The square appears to be round on the edges but it is completely straight. Reply to this
I focus on the Golden Ratio which the chair uses because of a set measurements that is needed for the chair to be available to a general audience. Reply to this
I'm willing to bet half the men who saw this commercial don't know what this phone she's advertising, is, what it does, or who made it. I sure as heck don't. By using megan fox motorola draws potential customers in because she's fun to look at in a bathtub, as demonstrated in the rest of the commercial. Reply to this
4/20/2010 1:02 AM
Sergio wrote:
I found this small space heater as an example of the golden ratio. I measure it and if i followed the formula correctly, it should stand around the number 1.618/0.618(A/B, B/A)!
4/24/2010 1:04 PM
Erik wrote:
People often think that a good knife needs to look like it wants to kill you rather than be made for durability and purpose.
4/25/2010 6:21 PMCorey Larson wrote:
For Aesthetic Bias Part 2, I decided to focus on the Law of Pragnanz which asserts that people tend to interpret ambiguous, simple images out of complex patterns.
For my example, I took a snapshot of some of my bathroom tile. It is meant to be a random conglomerate of lines and splatters, but every time I look down at this one spot on the floor, I see this image of what, to me, appears to be a slight silhouette of big foot. It could, of course, be interpreted in other ways; when I asked a few other people what they saw, I heard everything from a dog to a dinosaur. A few others agreed with me that it looks like big foot standing under moonlight.
For Aesthetic Bias #2, I took this picture as an example for the Fibonacci Sequence. This is a nautilus shell. The spiral of the nautilus shell is very, very similar to the golden spiral which is derived from the golden ratio. The growth factor X of the spiral is related to Y, the golden ratio. The spiral gets wider by a factor of Y for each quarter turn it makes. Pretty amazing how this golden ratio is not just unique to nautilus shells, but flowers, pineapple scales, galaxies, and many other naturally occurring things in nature as well. Reply to this
The law of Pragnanz says that people interpret unclear designs and images as simple rather than complex. I thought a good example of this would be in the clouds, while clouds are really not connected or related to each other, people make a hobby of cloud watching and making shapes out of them. Reply to this
For this I chose a stop sign. Intentional or not, it uses an approximate 3/5 to 2/5 ratio. The 3/5 is the bright red, designed to grab your attention and the 2/5 is the white text designed to inform you of the signs meaning (despite knowing what it means without having to read it). This provides a good balance and makes the sign hard to miss or misinterpret. Reply to this
I chose to use an example of a desk for the golden ratio. It is built for a general audience to use the desk without complications. Reply to this
5/3/2010 11:07 AM
Meagan Buchanan wrote:
After seeing all the examples in the book and notes about logos exhibiting "closure" it made me want to design a logo for my own website. It is still under wraps so here is another logo that plays on the elements of closure. The Habitat for Humanity logo is just three shapes & two colors but it creates an meaning through closure.
This is a painting of mine that shows an example of Good Continuation. Though all the lines of the figure are not connected the relatedness and similarities of the lines help imply that they are one design. The eye sees the figure as a whole not as separate pieces. Reply to this
In this photo even though the angle and distance is wierd you can still tell roughly how tall the person is and how high the rim is. This is an example of size constancy. Personally I also find that a bit of experience plays a role in perception of size. Most people know roughly how tall a basketball rim is and can thus guage roughly how tall this person is no matter the distance.
I thought I'd also throw in this example. In this photo I attempted to use a photography technique called tilt shift where color saturation and lens blur can affect the viewers perception of size. Most tilt shift photos give the sense that the images are of plastic models. I might not have successfully achieved that effect, but just wanted to note that size perception can be influenced. Reply to this
5/3/2010 2:46 PM
Brandon yorke wrote:
For my second aesthetic bias example i chose a male example. This armani add uses a square chinned dark looking young man to sell a suit. Any man that sees this will want to be this man perhaps, or any woman will want her man to look like this in a suit.
5/3/2010 5:08 PMMichael Nelson wrote:
This photograph is one utilizing the Closure principle by making you see a girl with a fan. because it's many black objects the image forces you to put the rest of the lines in to see the girl. Reply to this
This is a painting of mine that shows an example of Good Continuation. Though all the lines are not connected the relatedness and similarities of the lines help imply that they are one design. The eye sees the figure as a whole not as separate pieces. Reply to this
I chose this example for constancy. I took the photo at an art festival last summer. It looks as if the road gets narrower when actually its the same. Its all a matter of perception of constants. Reply to this
5/3/2010 7:39 PMOlivia Myles wrote:
Closure. Our eyes basically fill in the blanks of the image. I chose a logo that represents Closure.
5/3/2010 9:02 PM
Dallas Chavis wrote:
The top of my printer is a great example that I found of the Golden Ratio in design. The estimated dimensions are 17.5 x 10.3125 inches.
5/3/2010 9:14 PM
Landon Curtis wrote:
This is a picture of my monitor. It has an aspect ratio of 16:10 which is roughly the Golden Ratio. This ratio was chosen by designers hoping to find the most 'natural' feel for a monitor.
5/3/2010 9:21 PM
Dallas Chavis wrote:
I chose the picture of a chair as an example of Convergence. Chairs come in many different styles, shapes, and sizes. But chairs have converged to having a back support, a seat area, and some kind of support underneath the seat area.
5/3/2010 10:37 PM
Farah ABughazaleh wrote:
My picture is an example of the Golden Ratio and the use of the Vitruvian Man and how they are used for practically everything. They are the standard in which things are built, for example cars.
5/4/2010 12:32 AM
Melissa Woodring wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46555993@N04/4577675422/ I took this picture of my purse and also the shadows/stains on the carpet to represent the Law of Pragnanz. The symbols on the purse, although combined when put together, could also be seen simply as the shape of a heart. The floor shows random dark spots that some people might try to interpret as something different. Reply to this
oops this was posted in aesthetic toolbox instead of here. phew for a moment i thought you dismissed it:
Believe it or not, gestalt actually occurs in atoms too. Most of the atom is empty space, the nucleus of proton and neutrons only 1/10000 the diameter of the entire atom. The electrons move so quickly that the atom appears to be solid. Surely when you look at a table you wouldn't call it empty space, but atomically it mostly is. Reply to this
5/4/2010 8:07 PM
Shayne Hart wrote:
For my example of aesthetic bias (part 2) I chose a picture of a Calvin Klein model because people will usually want something more when an attractive person has it.
This example I made myself. It is an image of four crosses lying in a way that they create a box, even though they do not touch. It is an example of closure, where different objects look like they're part of one. Reply to this
Another example of aesthetic bias is perfume or cologne ads. I am going to use cologne as an example. Ads usually show women after n all over men that gives an impression that if you wear this cologne the same will happen to you. Like this pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hayootie-21/4484119555/
Another example is AXE ads and commercials.
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For my example for aesthetic bias 2, I chose to photograph an example of the Fibonacci sequence. I was lucky as a friend of mine actually has real seashells as decorations in her bathroom, and the spiral of a seashell follows the sequence.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46559235@N06/4509227477/
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My example above was a mistake. I took this picture a while ago and realized it showed an example of a Fibonacci sequence. The flower has two examples of the sequence.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hayootie-21/4411842072/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/design07/4521048727/
I choose a simple optical illusion to demonstrate Constancy and with subversive distortion. The square appears to be round on the edges but it is completely straight.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46777643@N07/4525267490/
I focus on the Golden Ratio which the chair uses because of a set measurements that is needed for the chair to be available to a general audience.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46646377@N04/4534608975/
I'm willing to bet half the men who saw this commercial don't know what this phone she's advertising, is, what it does, or who made it. I sure as heck don't. By using megan fox motorola draws potential customers in because she's fun to look at in a bathtub, as demonstrated in the rest of the commercial.
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I found this small space heater as an example of the golden ratio. I measure it and if i followed the formula correctly, it should stand around the number 1.618/0.618(A/B, B/A)!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46499124@N05/4536765987/?rotated=1&cb=1271746440238
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People often think that a good knife needs to look like it wants to kill you rather than be made for durability and purpose.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21421590@N04/4548256965/
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For Aesthetic Bias Part 2, I decided to focus on the Law of Pragnanz which asserts that people tend to interpret ambiguous, simple images out of complex patterns.
For my example, I took a snapshot of some of my bathroom tile. It is meant to be a random conglomerate of lines and splatters, but every time I look down at this one spot on the floor, I see this image of what, to me, appears to be a slight silhouette of big foot. It could, of course, be interpreted in other ways; when I asked a few other people what they saw, I heard everything from a dog to a dinosaur. A few others agreed with me that it looks like big foot standing under moonlight.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coreyleelarson/4552355879/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/49582368@N04/4554817261/
For Aesthetic Bias #2, I took this picture as an example for the Fibonacci Sequence. This is a nautilus shell. The spiral of the nautilus shell is very, very similar to the golden spiral which is derived from the golden ratio. The growth factor X of the spiral is related to Y, the golden ratio. The spiral gets wider by a factor of Y for each quarter turn it makes. Pretty amazing how this golden ratio is not just unique to nautilus shells, but flowers, pineapple scales, galaxies, and many other naturally occurring things in nature as well.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/xox4becca/4568862244/
The law of Pragnanz says that people interpret unclear designs and images as simple rather than complex. I thought a good example of this would be in the clouds, while clouds are really not connected or related to each other, people make a hobby of cloud watching and making shapes out of them.
Reply to this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49148398@N07/4569717192/
For this I chose a stop sign. Intentional or not, it uses an approximate 3/5 to 2/5 ratio. The 3/5 is the bright red, designed to grab your attention and the 2/5 is the white text designed to inform you of the signs meaning (despite knowing what it means without having to read it). This provides a good balance and makes the sign hard to miss or misinterpret.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/48714562@N05/4570558868/
I chose to use an example of a desk for the golden ratio. It is built for a general audience to use the desk without complications.
Reply to this
After seeing all the examples in the book and notes about logos exhibiting "closure" it made me want to design a logo for my own website. It is still under wraps so here is another logo that plays on the elements of closure. The Habitat for Humanity logo is just three shapes & two colors but it creates an meaning through closure.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaganb/4575519892/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandyland64/4576068874/
This is a painting of mine that shows an example of Good Continuation. Though all the lines of the figure are not connected the relatedness and similarities of the lines help imply that they are one design. The eye sees the figure as a whole not as separate pieces.
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I chose to illustrate constancy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49522860@N02/4575443195/
In this photo even though the angle and distance is wierd you can still tell roughly how tall the person is and how high the rim is. This is an example of size constancy. Personally I also find that a bit of experience plays a role in perception of size. Most people know roughly how tall a basketball rim is and can thus guage roughly how tall this person is no matter the distance.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49522860@N02/4575444131/
I thought I'd also throw in this example. In this photo I attempted to use a photography technique called tilt shift where color saturation and lens blur can affect the viewers perception of size. Most tilt shift photos give the sense that the images are of plastic models. I might not have successfully achieved that effect, but just wanted to note that size perception can be influenced.
Reply to this
For my second aesthetic bias example i chose a male example. This armani add uses a square chinned dark looking young man to sell a suit. Any man that sees this will want to be this man perhaps, or any woman will want her man to look like this in a suit.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48646978@N04/4575575857/
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This photograph is one utilizing the Closure principle by making you see a girl with a fan. because it's many black objects the image forces you to put the rest of the lines in to see the girl.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandyland64/4576068874/
This is a painting of mine that shows an example of Good Continuation. Though all the lines are not connected the relatedness and similarities of the lines help imply that they are one design. The eye sees the figure as a whole not as separate pieces.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46443572@N06/4576966378/
I chose this example for constancy. I took the photo at an art festival last summer. It looks as if the road gets narrower when actually its the same. Its all a matter of perception of constants.
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Closure. Our eyes basically fill in the blanks of the image. I chose a logo that represents Closure.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviamyles/4565984526/
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The top of my printer is a great example that I found of the Golden Ratio in design. The estimated dimensions are 17.5 x 10.3125 inches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46704995@N02/?donelayout=1
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This is a picture of my monitor. It has an aspect ratio of 16:10 which is roughly the Golden Ratio. This ratio was chosen by designers hoping to find the most 'natural' feel for a monitor.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49684317@N05/4576633823/
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I chose the picture of a chair as an example of Convergence. Chairs come in many different styles, shapes, and sizes. But chairs have converged to having a back support, a seat area, and some kind of support underneath the seat area.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46704995@N02/?donelayout=1
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My picture is an example of the Golden Ratio and the use of the Vitruvian Man and how they are used for practically everything. They are the standard in which things are built, for example cars.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/farahnator/4576832483/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/46555993@N04/4577675422/
I took this picture of my purse and also the shadows/stains on the carpet to represent the Law of Pragnanz. The symbols on the purse, although combined when put together, could also be seen simply as the shape of a heart. The floor shows random dark spots that some people might try to interpret as something different.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/undivision/4561415501/in/photostream/
oops this was posted in aesthetic toolbox instead of here. phew for a moment i thought you dismissed it:
Believe it or not, gestalt actually occurs in atoms too. Most of the atom is empty space, the nucleus of proton and neutrons only 1/10000 the diameter of the entire atom. The electrons move so quickly that the atom appears to be solid. Surely when you look at a table you wouldn't call it empty space, but atomically it mostly is.
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For my example of aesthetic bias (part 2) I chose a picture of a Calvin Klein model because people will usually want something more when an attractive person has it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47265263@N06/4579592387/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/49882792@N03/4579642685/
This example I made myself. It is an image of four crosses lying in a way that they create a box, even though they do not touch. It is an example of closure, where different objects look like they're part of one.
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