Category: Gestalt Principles

Hasnain Nazar

Fierce and Dynamic:
– Bold
– Unpredictable
– Empowered
– Wild
– Intense
– Leader
– Strong Focus
– Rapid
– Unpleasant
– Forward
Whimsical and Delicate:
– Playful
– Cute
– Growth
– Fragile
– Funny
– Light
– Dr.Suess
– Wicked
– Fantasy
– Pure
Safe and Efficient:
– Composed
– Balanced
– Boring
– Follower
– Reliable
– Secure
– Predictable
– Clean
– Symmetry
– Organized

Jason Wen

Fierce and Dynamic:
Motion
Surprise
Attack
Wild
Aggressive
Blast
Bold
Brave
Running
Breathless

Whimsical and Delicate:
Light
Swirl
Breeze
Floating
Bubbles
Windmill
Flowers
Snowflakes
Fragile
Thin

Safe and Efficient:
Straight
Grid
Rigid
Simple
Purpose
Goal
Professional
Practiced
Office
Suit

Carlo Liquido

Fierce Dynamic
black
red
sharp
spinning
cut
injury
heart
spit
crush
heat

Whimsical Delicate:
Blue
White
Cloud
Round
Soft
Toilet Paper
Sky
Flow
Light

Safe Efficient:
Box
Straight
Center
Inside
Constant
Equilibrium
Ground
Steel
Grey
Math

Gestalt Assignment – Ganesh

Fierce and Dynamic:
Burning
Fiery
Mob
Momentum
Big cities
Underwater
Speed
Childhood
Attack
Universe

Whimsical and Delicate:
Wispy
Unanticipated
Layered
Subtle
Incense
Erratic
Passive-aggressive
Ghostly
Mirage
Fleeting

Safe and Efficient:
Mathematical
German
Clean
Poignant
Routine
Default
Vector
Two-birds-one-stone
Obvious
Anchor

Owen Hsiao_Gestalt Principles

Associate Word List:
(A) Fierce and Dynamic:
Fast, Movement, Bad-ass, Furious, Quick, Flow, Line, Strength, Wild, Cruel

(B) Whimsical and Delicate:
Unpredictable, Breakable, Crazy, Fantasy, Chaotic, Scattered, Fragile, Tender, Unorganized, Weak

(C) Safe and Efficient:
Closed, Castle, Clean, Neat, Productive, Simple, Squared, Stable, Balanced, Firm

Gestalt Principles – Lasa

Here are my word associations for each of the emotional inputs:

Fierce & Dynamic: movement, angular, projectile, shooting, explosion, conflict, attack, barrage, chaos, expansion

Whimsical & Delicate: flowers, waves, nature, gentle, curving, magical, sprinkling, fairy, insect, water

Safe & Efficient: doors, protection, barrier, key, parallels, separation, sheltered, frictionless, ease, sleek

Yang Tan

These were my initial associations at the beginning of the project (before doing the compositions)

Dynamic: (per the option given to us in class that we can just focus on one word, I just focused on the dynamic part.)

– up
– a ballet dancer
– running
– angles
– jumping
– arrows
– flight
– ballistics (a bat hitting a ball)
– spaceshuttle launching
– thumbtacks falling

Whimsical and delicate:

– flowers
– curling tendrils
– dandelion
– butterfly fluttering
– small bird drinking
– a feather
– snowflake
– puff of air/smoke
– leaves on the wind
– nautilous shell

safe and efficient

– safe boxes
– the pyramids (triangular)
– an egg held in crates
– cogwheel piece on machine
– automatons – boxy robots
– square trough
– step-pyramids
– very large door (viewed from bottom up to maximize imposingness = trapezoid)
– roman column
– a barred window

Xiaojie Li

(A) Fierce and Dynamica
1. Water fall from up to down.
2. As top left corner needs to be balanced, I use scale to add effort to the left-up space, It’s dynamic because it’s like a water falling down from the window.
3. To balance top left space, I use the white square created by the black line to emphasize that space. It’s dynamic as you feel drawn to the inside. The focus is naturally be on the black little square.
4. I get the idea of dynamic from the way people enjoy calligraphy.
5. There are 4 squares in the image, two incomplete ones.
6. It’s like a bunch of flower.
7.It’s like a feather. The emphasize is put on the very left one.
8. Sunshine is a dynamic product. Again, to balance the image, I put the effort on top left corner.
(B) Whimsical and Delicate
1. Inspired by how weight balance the image, I put two items on opposite site. It’s very delicate as you will not call it balance from the vision, but you feel it’s balanced because of the weight.
2. To balance the image, I put the focus on the top left corner. This lines are in different scale. But because the nest line will take off some place of the previous line, it looks in harmony.
3. Also, use three lines to emphasize the left-up corner to balance the image.
4. The hierarchy is put in the enter short line.
5. Using space, my understanding is that the size should be the same. Also, as people’s eye following the up-down order. The focus will naturally be given to the bottom one.
6. I used line, point, and (white) space to create the delicate feeling.
7. Again, line, point, and (white ) space. Here, although the point is not in the center, it gets the attention because it’s on the top left corner.
8. I want to create a delicate image with a sense of motion. That’s why I put some disequilibrium on the left part.
(C) Safe and Efficient
1. little up space, like the title we see in one image, Efficient and balance.
2. Using scale to balance top left corner.
3. Using the same point to balance top left corner.
4. Efficient hierarchy, like the title we use in slides,
5. Hierarchy using space, like the article structure we use.
6. Balance the top left corner with slight difference.
7. Balanced but also emphasize the lone line.
8. A temple is a simple of safe.

Emily Paul

Fierce and Dynamic: strong, assertive, powerful, sharp, bold, forward, energetic, lively, active, brisk
Whimsical and Delicate: bouncy, light, fluid, jaunty, playful, cheerful, buoyant, carefree, jovial, animated
Safe and Efficient: clean, crisp, minimal, neat, clear, orderly, precise, conventional, linear, even