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Graphic Design: The New Basics - Layers

  • Layers are simultaneous, overlapping components of an image or sequence.
  • Most printing techniques require an image to be split into layers before it can be reproduced - digital techniques automate this process.
  • Layers allow the designer to treat the image as a collection of assets - Can vary the design by turning layers on and off.
  • Cubists painters popularised collage in the early 20th century.
  • Map designers use data layers.
  • Temporal layers - simultaneous. 
Design Task 1
For this task, I chose contrasting images of the Berlin Wall - one of freedom and one of a girl unable to even see the other side. I then used photoshop and created a double exposure composition of these two photographs and added a text, blending it into the image in places. The result is below:


Design Task 2
Here, I devised a way for 3 stories to be read at once, by using different ways of presenting them in a square.
Design Task 3
For this task, I used 4 sheets of coloured paper and made a collage. I then translated this digitally in Illustrator and I then created a storyboard for a short loop animation of how the layers could change, focusing on the opacity.








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