Line

Hello every one. Welcome to my blog again. This week I'll introduce the meaning and the use of line to you. Since the article may be a bit longer, I'll choose to use some more pictures to represent my ideas. Wish you can enjoy it.

There are many many things related with line in our world. I'd like to divide it in to two groups which are straight lines and combined lines and curves.(在這篇文章裡面我想把這些線分成單純的直線和不是單純的直線)


- Straight lines -


The uncombined straight lines will have some implicit meaning to us. Like the edge of the tall buildings may give us the feeling of power and strength, while the horizontal edge between ground and sky may let us feel quiet, peaceful.

Besides the edge of different object, lines can use to divide or classify data and information.

Also, a simple line can show the tendency of something. For instance, though the experiment data can seem nonsense, but with the tendency line, we often find some rule inside the complicated data. (The picture is just an example.)

- Combined lines and curves - 


Combined lines and curves are more close to us since most of things aren't all straight lines but combined curves and lines. Though we won't see an obvious black line edge on many things, but the different color of  that object and its surrounding things may still have a blurry edge. It is the edge that ancient people drew it down on the rock to record what they'd saw.

Today, we still use the same way to write down our thought with simple lines. The differences are the way we write today is easier and more systematic but lack of the real shape of the real object. 

Since lines can portray almost any thing we could see, it's an important element in graphic design. By using curves and straight lines, we can show any thing we want without using a single letter. In comparison to the simple straight line, combined lines and curves are more energetic and artistic. Almost everything in the computer is made of  lines. Maybe there are lots of shapes in there but they can be seen as a linear frame filled with colors. Not to mention the designed graphic in our everyday life.

The uses of lines are too many to count. But there's an unchangeable thing that it is the base of any other shapes or art works in the world. It's hard to tell how we use it in our design with just one article. But if you pay attention on everything you see in a day, you'll definitely find something about the use of line. That's it for today. Wish you have a happy weekend.