Design Translation · 2006

Fibonacci Series

An exercise in the illusion of space.

Subject
The illusion of space
Sheets
8
Form
Black bars on white paper
Date
2006/10/13
A square block of dark vertical bars on a white sheet, separated by thin white lines that get wider apart from left to right, with pencil handwriting at the upper right

Space

This exercise explores the illusion of space.

How does the placement of elements on a surface define distance? How do positioning and interval create depth where there is none? I found that even simple shifts in spacing can make a flat plane feel dimensional.

Intervals

Black bars on a white sheet grow wider, and the gaps between them change.

Six black vertical bars on a white sheet, growing wider from left to right, with gaps between them that also grow
Six black vertical bars on a white sheet, from two thin bars at the left to a wide block at the right edge, with the gaps widening between them
Six black vertical bars growing wider from left to right, the first at the left edge and the last at the right edge, with pencil handwriting above
Six black vertical bars, the order reversed: a wide bar on the left that narrows toward thin bars at the right edge

Placement

The same kind of bars, grouped and moved across the sheet.

Black vertical bars of different widths grouped unevenly on a white sheet, with a thin bar at the left and a partial bar cut off at the right edge
Two groups of black bars, a wide bar with a thin one at the left and four narrow bars at the right, with an empty space between them
Black bars spread across a white sheet: a wide block at the left edge, two pairs of narrower bars in the middle, and one thin bar near the right

Closing

Small shifts in spacing, big shifts in perception.

2006/10/13

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