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The inventor Charles Kettering is famously quoted as saying:“a problem well-stated is half-solved.”The first step in any design project is to define the problem that the design should solve. You want to understand the goals and objectives – the purpose of the...
By Gil Dekel, PhD. While we refer to colours with specific names (such as: red, green or blue) in truth colours do not seem to have specific ‘identity’. They are not ‘separate’ from each other, and do not exist in ‘isolation’. Rather they affect each other and depend...
By Dr. Gil Dekel. Colours around us are extremely delicate. They can have gradations of shades and hues mixed. Nature is prolific in ‘creating’ elaborate colours. Look carefully at the example below. If you add red to black, you get a warm black. If you add blue to...
Author and designer Gavin Ambrose, MA, interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Part 2. Back to Part 1. Gil Dekel: What does it take to be ‘good’ graphic designer? Gavin Ambrose: To be a good story teller – that’s all. Be it a brand, a poster, a book – tell a story....
Author and designer Gavin Ambrose, MA, interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Part 1. Part 2. Gil Dekel: When you look at letters, what do you ‘see’? What do you ‘feel’? Gavin Ambrose: Typography and letterforms create a large part of visual culture and communication. To a...
Dr. Gil Dekel. 1. Break the Rules: Learn the rules, and then break them. Invent new rules. But remember to first learn the existing rules, and only then to break them. 2. Listen: You have two ears and only one mouth, so listen twice than speaking. Listen, look, and...
Graphic Designer Alberto Hernández interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How do images and type relate to each other? How do you connect the two? Alberto Hernández: The relation between images and type is determined by the content and the needs of the project. It...
by Dr. Gil Dekel. ‘…a drawing of a person in not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line’ – Sol LeWitt [1]. Following this declaration by artist Sol Lewitt, I decided to paint a portrait – a portrait of a line… I was guided to use inks for the...
Black Circle That is Going to Be. Animation Flash Artwork. 2008. Converted to GIF animation (2019). Gil Dekel. “What interests me is not the square or the circle, but what is in betweenthe two: the artistic process by which one becomes the other.”...
Matt Manley (painter, teacher, digital artist, and illustrator of Rumi wall calendars published by Brush Dance) – interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: Your work seems a mix of symbols and memories – a puzzle leading the viewer...
- Reading with Natalie, book here...