The Vitruvian Man was created by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1490. This famous artwork depicts a males nude body in two positions: one standing still and one with outstretched limbs. This study of the human body. This image fascinatingly illustrates how the human bodies feet will touch the border of a circle when positioned in the centre, and how in both positions their hands iwll touch the border of a square when placed within.
The Golden Ratio is a mathematical ratio often used to explain many of the things found in nature. Although often associated with things in the natural world, the Golden Ratio is often sued as a tool or ‘formula’ to create appealing designs. This ratio was discovered as a pattern in nature thousands of years ago, but was only coned as the Golden Ratio in the 19th century. The term ‘Golden Ratio’ explains and visualises ‘Phi’, or 1.618.
In class, we took some time to search for real-world examples that reflect the Golden Ratio. I found this very interesting, as I had never notices how much this occurs in many everyday objects, particularly nature. Some examples of the Golden Ratio that I found can be seen below.
The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers that begins with 0 and 1. To put it simply, this sequence adds the previous two numbers to produce the following number in the sequence and so on. The numbers increase at a steady pace, gradually increasing faster as the previous numbers are larger. This has been described in mathematics for a few thousand years, and was first named as the Fibonacci sequence in 1202.
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987…
I presented the golden ratio using point, line and plane. This activity gave me the opportunity to test my knowledge of how the golden ratio may be presented in ordinary life and how I may use it in future projects. This activity involved using 22 points, 3 lines and 9 planes. I really enjoyed this activity, however plane took the longest due to having the highest number to use.
During our lecture, I was given the task of presenting content in a balanced hierarchy, which means using different fonts, sizes and weights to present text in a more in-depth, emotional way. I chose the following quote:
The person who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the person who does not ask is a fool for life.—Confucius
I chose this as I felt that I could use text size and weight to represent the ‘foolishness’ that a person would have for asking/not asking a question. The nature of this quote was ideal for this activity, as I could expressively use fonts while ensuring that it will be easy to read. For this reason, I decided to go with Monsterrrat as my font, as it is easy to read as well has having a wide range of options for font weight. We used the website ‘Typescale’ to help us visualise the different font sizes and wights that we could use. I found this an extremely helpful tool when I was choosing my font, font size and depth as it made it much easier to visualise.
