Grouping & Theme

I tried to keep all of my images simple so there would be as little distraction as possible. Here with unity, I basically moved all of the circles right on top of each other. When I think of unity I think of togetherness and closeness. I also made the circles a bit different in size to let that perhaps represent people and to show that not one person is the same. That is what I tried to convey here.

With the word "celebration" the first thought that came to mind was happiness. That is why I decided to take the circles as put them into the shape of a smiley face. Celebration is a time where something has been accomplished and I would say that often more times than not it is a happy moment in time.

"Isolation" was the easiest for me to do. Being left of out the crowd is something that almost everyone can relate to and I feel that if someone saw this image and were asked to think of one word, isolation would defiantly come to mind. Krause makes a great point, "Effective grouping streamlines the viewer's search for meaning and information. The designer helps the viewer by deciding which (and how) elements should visually relation to each other."(P43) I not only made the the united circles different in size, similar to "unity" but I also made the stray circle in the upper left at its original size to make it stand out even more from the united circles.

Escape was not difficult in coming up with ideas but rather ways to express them with 10 circles. I decided to do a pathway that I tried to make look endless and that it kept going. An escape for me would be walking away from somewhere and I tried to show that by having the path start and end at the corners so it looked endless. I feel as though this could potentially be somewhat difficult for a viewer to figure out, I think I could have done a better job and trying to relate to what the viewers would be seeing instead of my own personal thoughts.

For intimidation, this was the first theme that I somewhat struggled with how to group the circles. I looked up the word to find a better understanding of the different meanings. One line said strong arms, so I decided to try and represent that by placing the circles in the shape of someone who was flexing their biceps downwards like in body build competitions. The two bigger circles on either side represent the biceps with the other circles that curl towards each other represent the two arms.

Logic was the last grouping that I finished. My first thoughts were books and a brain. I wasn't sure how to represent that with just using circles so I looked up the word and one word that stuck out to me was "predictability". Having a straight line of any sort I feel is very predictable and one the safe side. The logic behind that is that where there is one circle, another one must follow right after that. That is why I decided to put them from corner to corner so it was never ending line of circles.

Anarchy was another tough theme that made me think. I looked up this word as well and found that "utopia" and peaceful living were described. I decided to try and represent this word by using a peace sign without the circle around it. I do feel that it could be seen as something else as well if viewed by others but thought I could group together and create a theme from that would make some sort of sense.