Writing Assignment- Principle

Intro to Design

Jennifer Brewer

Writing Assignment- Principle—Unity

                Unity is the need to work your design together.  It’s a measure of how all the items or elements on your work fit together.  Your work is first a whole, then broken down into its parts.  There are several ways to achieve unity in your design: repetition, proximity, and continuation.  Repetition is the use of color, texture, shapes, and objects repeatedly in your work.  If you have an image with a sunset setting, repeating the dimness or the color pattern of the rays across the entire image would be an example of repetition.  Another would be the texture of snow in a winter setting.  Proximity is the simpilest method of unity.  By placing objects that belong together close to each other, forming a pattern for us to see.  Placing vases close together forming  a visual pattern would portray proximity.  Finally, continuation is a more subtle form of unifying your work.  Continuing a line, edge, or  direction from an area to another.  If you have an object that is flowing in the wind, other objects would have the same directional flow to get the image of wind across to its viewers.  Unity is my favorite principle because of the simplicity of it, yet can have one of the greater effects in your work.