Pecha kucha feul brief

I found this an interesting brief and decided to approach it from a personal direction as i have been influenced as we all are by the serendipity of the humble line. The photographs below were presented for 20 seconds and the corresponding text was loosely followed as a commentary.

Pecha Kucha presentation

Lines

1. We encounter lines through our daily lives many going unnoticed, as they became part of our thinking thousands of years ago, in reality and metaphorically speaking.

Lines are responsible for a multitude of functions. For example they can simply hold buildings together in the form of cement and the straight edges of the bricks they amalgamate. Or in the case of the pyramids just by gravity.

2. Even the Fuel we use is carried by lines be it as wires or pipes they are responsible for carrying the power we use that is essential for our communication, heat, transport and defence to name but a few. Be it electricity, oil or gas, all transported on lines to the communities and industries that they serve.

3. As Designers we often adhere to the grid system in order to produce continuity, structure and balance to the information we are attempting to communicate. To produce legible reading matter we write (in the Western world) from right to left in a linear format.

4. Our production lines become more efficient when we use more linear methods for example the offset printing process where paper is required to be regular in shaped i.e. square in order for it to be fed into a printing press in a straight line then guide lines are printed in order to produce straight folding so printed matter can be collated.

5. The topography of our planet is covered in lines, fault lines, lines of latitude and longitude in the form of the equator, and tropics of cancer and Capricorn. Our world is divided by time zones that are centralised through Greenwich meantime these time zones move in equal linear sections governed north to south and in eastern and western directions.

6. There are many methods of visualizations for timelines. Historically, timelines were static images, and generally drawn or printed on paper. Timelines relied heavily on graphic design, and the ability of the artist to visualize the data. Timelines are often used in education to help students and researchers.

7. Photographic lines are a powerful element regarding composition of an image that can add visual and emotional impact to a photograph. They are widely used by experienced photographers of many types and there are several reasons why: lines create depth in a composition, add dynamism to a photograph, attract attention to areas of interest and imply motion and create a sense of direction or orientation, which conveys a certain mood to a photo.

8. In geometry there are only three types of lines. Firstly where two or more lines meet at a point these are called intersecting lines. Secondly, when two lines meet and form right angles these are called perpendicular lines. And thirdly, when two lines in the same plane and remain the same distance apart never intersecting is called parallel lines.

9. Lines are nature’s way of recording time as the rings in a tree or layers of rock on the earth record the seasons and various periods of the earth’s evolution. It is widely accepted that there are no straight lines in nature. If we trek into nature we see that the trees, flowers and rocks all flow.

10. In visual art lines can be dynamic, expressive, structural excited or nervous, static, meandering, indirect or direct. They can be used to balance, emphasis, create movement and rhythm. They may even be used to texture, imply edge or outline. Indeed we should be grateful that we as visual communicators have been educated by our for fathers in the use of the beautiful expressive line.