A Design Project Discovery Sheet

(for identifying design elements/principles used in an exhibit or project goals).

Take a close look at the item you are planning to create or make and work through the following questions:

COLOR

What are the colors ? (list them) Are they warm or cool?  Do you see different values ? (light or dark) Do you see different shades? Different tints? Different intensities? Describe it…

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TEXTURE

Describe the textures ?  (rough, smooth, soft, scratchy, firm, etc.)____________________________________________

LINE

Are there any lines? Describe their movement(straight, curved, thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, relaxed, active)

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SHAPE

What are the shapes you see (describe the geometric or irregular shape)?

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SPACE

Describe the types of space you see (negative or positive)?

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Now that you’ve identified the “individual” design elements you either see in the 4-H exhibit or that you are planning to make look for how these elements are arranged based on principles.

BALANCE

What balance do you see when looking at the line, color, texture, shape/form or spaces (formal, radial or informal)?

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RHYTHM

What kind of organized movement do you see of the lines, color, textures, shape/form and spaces (repetition, graduation, alteration)?

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EMPHASIS

What is the center or area of interest in your design/exhibit? (is it a color, similar or contracting lines, shapes or textures…)

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PROPORTION/SCALE

What is the size relationship of two or more objects to each other and the space they fill? (Proportion between the amount, value, intensity of color or between the quality and kind of textures, ie.; the scale is the size of the parts of a design as they relate to each other)

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UNITY

Describe how all the parts belong together (color, texture, line, shape or form and space) and are combined for balance, proportion or  or scale…

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