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Graphic Design: The New Basics - Transparency

  • Transparency suggests clarity and directness at a social value.
  • In design, transparency is used to create dense, layered imagery.
  • Opacity. 
  • A viewer perceives the transparency of one plane in relation to a second one.
  • In video and animation, face and dissolve transitions are used. 
  • No material is wholly transparent e.g. scratches or cracks in glass.
  • Graphic transparency.
Design Task 1
For this task, I looked for transparency in the environment and photographed examples. These are shown below:



Design Task 2
Here I combined image and type, and made parts transparent to see how it affected the image. For the first example, I made the text over the people transparent, to make them stand out and for the second example I used an image of a church and put a layer of crosses on top, and then made a large cross symbol in the crosses transparent so it is hardly noticeable, which is an effect I like. 

Design Task 3
For this task, I combined an image and a text and adjusted the transparency and direction of the text to give a sense of movement to the composition.


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