design-aerobics 2012: graphic design course - sample lesson the
following is an example of a lesson from the upcoming graphic
design course: composition & layout the idea of a 'correct'
composition in keeping with the human need to understand
everything we see, composition is an aspect of visual
communication that we have sought to perfect for thousands of
years. over the ages people have explored this through examining
the natural world and began to realize that certain systems and
sequences found in organic forms can be translated into man-made
works to theoretically enhance their 'beauty'. from the ancient
egyptians and greeks through the italian renaissance,
modernism... artists, designers and architects have applied what
is known as the golden ratio to their works. the golden ratio is
a visual representation of a number called phi (0.618 : 1) a
proportion, in which a rectangle is divided into two unequal
parts in such a way, that the ratio of the smaller to the
greater part is the same as that of the gre