Stippling and Pointllism

STIPPLING (just dotting)

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of value or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.

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POINTILLISM

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color spots into a fuller range of tones.

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Paul Signac, Femmes au Puits, 1892, showing a detail with constituent colors. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Public Domain.

Detail showing pointillism technique. Instead of painting outlines and shapes with brush strokes and areas of color, pointillism builds up the image from separate colored dots of paint. From a distance, the dots merge to some extent and appear to be areas of shaded tones, but the colors have an extra vibrancy from the juxtaposition of contrasting dots.

Go to Google Arts & Culture (former Google Art Project) and visit Seurat's artworks.

Zoom in his pointillist artworks

Complementary colours

PRIMARY.......................................................SECONDARY

YELLOW............................................PURPLE(magenta+cyan)

CYAN...........................................ORANGE (yellow+magenta)

MAGENTA.............................................GREEN (yellow+cyan)

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Typography

TYPOGRAPHY is what language looks like. 

It is the art and technics of type design.

Type the sky

Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

Eatphabet

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Types
A pop-up book.


Human alphabets
Human Alphabets 3

Human Alphabets 3 from Sotirios Raptis

Human alphabets 2
Human alphabets 1

More examples:

• Draw me a song: take a look to these wonderful typography examples. Posters.
• Modular typography: Made typography using half moon shape as the negative space between box shapes. Then translated into cardboard sculptures mimicking the same design elements. Sculptures.
• Fillingraphy on typography. Cakes!

Have a look to examples from your last course classmates.