Tone and Color

This image is used in a sex education online comic, Oh Joy Sex Toy. 

How TONE is operating

In this image, varying tones are used to differentiate the body from the pop-out images and text. The lightest tone is the background, allowing darker tones to contrast with it. Different tones are also creating the background shape, heading bubbles, arrows, and text. The arrows and text, for instance, are a consistent dark tone that contrasts with the lighter tone of the body parts. The pop-out graphic of the anus is a middle tone, further differentiating it from the rest of the image. The bright white tone also allows us to see the beginning and end of each organ in the respective bodies.

How TONE is interacting

Tone interacts with shape here. The different tones essentially create the shapes of the image. The large dark-toned image in the back adds to the depth and contrast from the rest of the image as it reinforces the curves of the pop-out anus piece and the butts. The medium tone seen in the pop-out anus and in the bodies contrast from the dark tone in the background shape, to allow our eyes to see the image. This mid-tone becomes what our eyes first see, the focal points. Similarly, the slightly darker tone of the pop-out anus and the pop-out info bubbles further reinforce curves seen in the image, as well as differentiate from the large amount of info on the graphic. These bubbles also become a lead in and out of the image. 

How COLOR is operating

Here, the color is monochromatic with varying shades of pink. This color works great with the anatomical image, implying skin, veins, organs, etc., but in a tasteful way. Similar to tone, the colors here emphasize different parts of the image. The large bright pink bubble in the background draws out eye to the center. The lighter pinks fill in the bodies, with a darker pink showing the anus. I think that the slightly darker tone of the anus pop-out image implies it being farther away, underneath something, or in shadow. This could be the case since we know that the anus is a bit tucked away. 

How COLOR is interacting

Color and direction interact in this image. The bubbles at the top left and bottom right of the image draw out eye in that direction down the piece, their color a bit different from the other pinks. The bright pink circle in the back draws our eye into the center of the image, and the arrows use contrasting color to direct the viewer and draw there attention to the details of the image. 

Sexuality and Design

This website allows a user to move dots and lines to create the perfectly shaped sex toy for their bodies. These dots act as anchor points, and the lines help to form the shape. The connection of these dots and lines allow the eye to imagine what the form would look like. The end result has no dots or lines, but creates a shape/form as curves created from the dots and lines

This art piece uses wire to create line. This line draws the eye to various places to create an image. This image is three-dimensional, resting on a block of wood. Our eye is used to seeing an image like this drawn two-dimensionally with a pen on paper. This illusion using line allows us to see the image of a stretching figure as a sculpture. Line is very literally used in the end result as well as the creation stages.

 

These tiny hotels use scale and shape to create small, modular living spaces. The design uses fundamental shapes like squares to create rectangles and right angles. These form symmetrical, functional, compartments. They allow for storage, a sleeping space, and even a pull down table. A further use is in the double-layered space with stairs. By using grids and lines, the designer creates uniform spaces that can be scaled down greatly. There have been jokes about these new spaces being used for "quickies" instead of using motel rooms, to cut down on cleanup and waste.

http://sexanddesign.com/2011/01/06/design-your-own-good-time/
http://sexanddesign.com/2011/10/05/wire-sculptures-by-gavin-worth/

http://sexanddesign.com/2010/10/07/lets-get-busy-here-teeny-tiny-hotels/

Visual Thinking and Puzzles

The interesting part of these two puzzles is how both players did not even notice the number pattern. We both looked at the images as shapes, thinking that the lines were used somehow to solve the puzzle. We both noticed mirroring, too, but didn't notice that the images being mirrored were numbers. Our brains separated symbols we knew from these unknown symbols, instead of using knowledge we already had to solve the puzzle. Neither of us could solve this puzzle.

We both had very different strategies with this puzzle. I (the top one) tried to visualize each "E". That didn't work because it was nearly impossible to imagine the ones that were being intercepted by smaller "E"'s. My partner (the lower one) tried solving the puzzle with math. She noticed a grid, which we associate with math, and figured a simple equation would solve the puzzle. Again, we were both wrong. 

http://www.dxmstories.org/ Check out the website to better understand the statement below

This website uses creative scrolling to move shards of glass around the page explaining the negative effects of abusing a drug, DXM. As one scrolls, images of smaller glass shards, "Drug Facts" labels, and a spacey image float in the background. The larger shards of glass contain information, images of symptoms, and users' stories and images. Despite the details in the background, our eye first focuses on the larger shards of glass, since our top-town way of seeing focuses on the most important task at hand first, in this case reading the website content. Next our eye notices that other things are moving with the larger shards (the previously mentioned smaller shards etc.) creating a feeling that one is floating in space. Finally we notice the nuances of the website's scrolling and overall design.