Kate Sanders // DDN-101 Design Thinking

Students were taught the importance of perceiving positive and negative spaces, as well as understanding the figure/ground relationship, is key to creating engaging designs. Creating a pleasing sense of balance through both symmetry and asymmetrical balance is a technique that designers often use to create images that are engaging and entertaining to look at.

Notan means “light and dark” in Japanese, and is a time-tested way of thinking about balance in a composition. In this project, students were challenged to create a Notan design that evokes delight through attractive composition, playful symmetry, unique shape combinations, and clever artistic choices.

Kate's notan was inspired by pop culture. She crafted thumbnails and roughs to create a professional looking Japanese Notan.