Fields, Value, Events Assignment

The Assignment

1- Create four 'book pages' using the Book Canon (Van de Graaf Canon).
(Each page should be no less than 11"x7" (1/2 11x14 sheet of paper minimum)).
2- On two of the page layout boxes create mechanical line fields.
3- On the other two layout boxes create offset fields.
(The fields should all be different values.)
4- Create an event at one or more of the golden points in the layout box.
5- There should be some relation between the four layout boxes and/ or the two pages

The Van de Graaf canon

Lines
The theme of this piece is the balance of Yin and Yang.  

  

This design process used vertical and horizontal black inked mechanical lines as the background to reveal 

Yin and Yang.

The lines on the left link the images together, as opposed to the right,

which separate the images from one another.

To have meaning the background needs the images as much as the images need the background, just like the Yin and the Yang need each other.

Offset
The theme of this piece is one and two. 



The design process used blank ink and stamps to create the offset fields and the objects.
Repetitive use of the # sign as a background, on the left example, sets the stage for the number 1 to stand out in its strategically placed golden point.  Your eye is easily drawn to the golden point location.
If the object was placed, let's say in the bottom right hand corner, your eye would still find the object, but may have to scan the entire page before locating it.
The example to the right uses a neutral background of 6's and 9's in a pattern of alternating rows.
I purposely threw the pattern off by changing a 6 and a 9, to a 9 and a 6 at two of the four golden points.
Although these objects were placed at golden points, they still didn't become immediately apparent.
I concluded that because of the objects similarities they became somewhat camouflaged into the background.
It seems that the mind wants to automatically initially group similarities together into the background in order to focus specifically on more important details.
To overcome this I increased the value of the objects by re-stamping them several times.
This gave the two objects a forthcoming presence over the background allowing the eye to pick up on them immediately.

My Intention and Conclusion
In all seriousness, my overall intention on this project is to get an A+.
:)
Fields, Value, and Events all have there place in a 2D design project.
Manipulating them to enforce what you are trying to convey will have dramatic effects, offering positive outcomes, if done properly.