Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
IT'S TRUE THAT THIS TOPIC
spread is a photograph of what appears to be a desktop. But it's
actually a composition of dots, lines, rectangles, and negative spaces—all of different sizes and
orientation, relative to each other.
Finest Magma
Germany
ALTHOUGH THE JAZZ FIGURES
are recognizable images, they behave nonetheless as a system of
angled lines, interacting with a secondary system of hard- and soft-edged planes. In addition to
considering the back-and-forth rhythm created by the geometry of all these angles, the designer
has also carefully considered the forms' alternation between positive and negative to enhance
their rhythmic quality and create a sense of changing position from foreground to background.
Niklaus Troxler
Switzerland
