For our first project of Interaction Design we have been asked to complete a series of designs using Point, Line and Plane.

“Point, line, and plane are the building blocks of design. From these elements, designers create images, icons, textures, patterns, diagrams, animations, and typographic systems.” —Ellen Lupton

Point, Line and Plane are starting points of every design. There are three main elements of design, which are used as the building blocks of a final design.

Point

First up is Point, Point suggests a location and has no dimension, I decided to do some research before putting pen to paper, this is always a good start to get inspiration or ideas from other designers. I had a look at Sagmeisters Seed branding, which shows how simple dots can become a highly creative and flexible brand. This cluster of small dots/points can create an image and the imagination can fill in the space of what it could be.

Another few designers I had a look over was Nicholas Felton and David McCandless, Felton’s work shows the value circles add to the creation of his personal annual reports. I thought this was really creative way to report information. David’s was very fascinating as he created the bottom of a foot with points using different sizes.

Before designing these sketches on Figma I made sketches, as this is a design principle and should always be the first part of designing anything.

'Paper should be the first point of call to get your idea(s) out of your head and into a form that can be easily visualised, reimagined, discussed and shared.' — Jake Giltsoff, Typekit

For the first project we were asked to complete, was to choose 2 words out of multiple different words and to describe the chosen words through using either point, line or plane as a animated sequence or storyboard. The list of words we had to choose from to resemble Point was reflect, multiply, disperse, proximity, scale and dominance.

I chose dominance for my first set of designs, I created dominance by using larger points in contrast to smaller points, showing the dominance of the larger points.