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LINE CONTRASTS
with texture, organic cluster contrasts with geometric text, and large elements
contrast with small in this promotional poster.
Munda Graphics
Australia
Each of These Things Is Unlike the Other
There are several kinds of basic form,
and each does something different. Rather, the eye and the brain perceive each kind of
form as doing something different, as having its own kind of identity. The perception of
these differences and how they affect the form's interaction with space and other forms
around it, of differing identities, is what constitutes their perceived meaning. The con-
text in which a given form appears—the space or ground it occupies and its relationship
to adjacent forms—will change its perceived meaning, but its intrinsic identity and op-
tical effect always remains an underlying truth. The most basic types of form are the
dot, the line, and the plane. Of these, the line and the plane also can be categorized as
geometric or organic; the plane can be either flat, textured, or appear to have three-di-
mensional volume or mass.
