Design Principle Patterns

Using my digitalised design principles in my previous post, I have then imported them into Adobe Photoshop and have experimented with repetition, layering and blending modes to create the following patterns that I will eventually be placing onto my 3D Sketch-Up designs later on in this project.

Symmetry:

I have made this final pattern through combining two different patterns that I made using my design principle and then using the blending mode of Difference with an opacity of 85% for my top group of layers to allow the second bottom group of layers to begin to come through.

Rhythm:

I have made this pattern exactly the same way as I made my symmetry pattern - by making two different patterns and 'differencing' them to make a final pattern. My bottom layer in this case is rotated on a diagonal across the page to try and change the visual flow within the design.

Proportion

Again I have made this pattern exactly the same way as I made my previous two patterns as the result is always different depending on my two different original patterns. Again I created two different patterns and 'differencing' them to make a final pattern. One of my layers is simply my digitalised proportion principle repeated 180 times with each corner touching the next. For my other pattern I just did this again but I removed some here and there to make that sort of 'optical illusion' effect of the diamond shapes throughout my final pattern.

Contrast

This has got to be my favourite pattern. I have made this through multiple layering, orientations, scaling and colouring. All up I have over 500 layers in this final pattern. Out of the three groups of layers only two have the blending mode of differencing which allows the colour black to come through in the stars when they are by themselves and creates different shades of grey when they are layered on top of each other - different shades of grey depending on how many are layered.

The thing I most like about using the blending mode of difference is that the whole pattern changes respectively depending on the colour of the background. Therefore they can become more versatile depending on the need / want. 

Figure-Ground

This has to be my least favourite pattern unfortunately. This pattern was extremely easy to make as all I did was repeat the pattern multiple times to fill the page and then do it again but mirroring it. Because all my layers are in groups it allows me to use the blending mode of 'Pass Through' which is what I have used on both the groups in this pattern. Very basic and not so aesthetically appealing, though I couldn't really do much due to my digitalised principle.

Datum

This pattern involved using my digitalised principle and copying / rotating it around the centre to make the circle in the centre. That was the start, I then repeated the hell of it and changed the scale to make my first group of layers. I then did this another three times making four groups containing multiple layers within. After this I went through and erased any circles that were not complete - as you can see from my digitalised principle below, I created it within a box so there are some circles that were not whole when making this pattern. Finally once I had gone through and touched everything up, I changed the blending modes all four of my groups to 'Darken' with opacity 100% to make them 'pop' on the page.

Hierarchy

This was an extremely easy and quick final pattern to make. I made this like most of my patterns by creating two different patterns through repeating my digitalised principle multiple times - one vertical, and one horizontal. I then used the difference blending mode to create my final pattern.

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