The basic challenge of this assignment is to make your chosen shape "disappear" into a design of interlocking positive and negative shapes. By "disappear," I mean that your chosen shape should not be more visually powerful than any of the shapes around it, and a good test of that is to ask yourself whether its identity is almost lost in the overall design.
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It's hard to make a recognizable shape less interesting than abstract shapes, but it can be done. It will help if you can think of your recognizable shape as part of the background, and concentrate on getting something interesting to happen in the rest of the design.
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Please keep in mind that one of the goals of this assignment is for you to explore your aesthetic preferences, which in this case means creating a design that somehow appeals to you.
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It's hard to make a recognizable shape less interesting than abstract shapes, but it can be done. It will help if you can think of your recognizable shape as part of the background, and concentrate on getting something interesting to happen in the rest of the design.
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Please keep in mind that one of the goals of this assignment is for you to explore your aesthetic preferences, which in this case means creating a design that somehow appeals to you.
