Group Members:
Tatyana Best
Keryena Hinds
Project 3: Principles of Organization
2D Design | Prof. Jacques | Spring 2014
• Rhythm is most easily understood within music.
Rhythm represents our desire for order. Rhythm
is easily perceived but complex and subtle.
Rhythm can be described as timed movement
through space, an easy, connected path along
which the eye follows a regular arrangement of
design. Rhythm depends largely upon the
elements of pattern and movement to achieve its
effects.
Rhythm
• Linear Rhythm ( Flow ) is one way visual Rhythm is
formed. Linear rhythm is not as dependent on pattern, but
is more dependent on timed movement of the viewer's eye.
In this image, gradation is used in the background to give it
a feeling of different space between the lines.
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• Repetition is the use of patterns to get timed movement
and a visual "beat". Some artist makes it clear in the
elements of their composition, or some artist make more of
an indirect kind of repetition. Which is represented by the
image below.
Rhythm
• Alternation is a certain type of patterning in which
patterns of the same elements reappear in a regular order.
Ex: In this image the pattern repeats from (big/small
dark/light). Also the use of vibrant allows our eyes to flip
back and forth.
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Random Rhythm
Groupings of similar motifs or
elements that repeat with no
regularity create a random rhythm
• Progressive Rhythm this rhythm also involves repetition,
but repetition of a shape that changes in a regular manner.
It is mainly achieved with a progressive variation of the
size of a shape, however its color, value, or texture could
be the varying element. Progressive rhythm is very
common in nature.
Rhythm
• Polyrhythm Structure is the most complex rhythmic
structure we can credit to an artwork, or musical piece. The
overlay of several rhythmic patterns produces a complex
result, even if the parts are simple.
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The red dots almost connect the shapes into a wave hence,
creating movement
The repetition and position of the different geometric shapes
creates a pattern and movement which makes the eyes
move in a wave
Random
rhythm
• http://oliveirarafael98.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/rhythmcomposition/
• http://www.mosaicartnow.com/2010/07/exploring-theuniversal-appeal-of-rhythm-repetition-and-novelty-inmosaics-2/
• https://sites.google.com/site/learndesigns/alternatingrhythm
• http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/principl/rhythm/rhyth
m.htm
• http://www.sophia.org/tutorials/design-in-art-repetitionpattern-and-rhythm
• Design Basics 8th Edition by David Lauer/Stephen Pentak
Rhythm
• Rhythm is a basic characteristic of nature
• Rhythm as a design principle is based on
repetition
• Rhythmic structures in visual art and design
are often described in terms borrowed from
music vocabulary
• Most often we think of rhythm in the context
of shapes and their arrangements
Rhythm