Chance Operations
Hey Guys!So I had to research and summarize Chance operations on page 127. Its basically “sketch” materials for a deconstruction. It’s the dissection of an image across multiple pages of a book. The decision of where the dissection is made is at random without regard to the composition of the image. Bringing chance into your design will help see the material more clearly, it will allow you to organize it in a less predictable way.
Thoughts? Questions?
Will it ALWAYS help us see the content more clearly? How can this be? Less organization adds meaning? Someone has to explain this to me (grin).
ReplyDeleteChance operation doesn't necessarily make it more clear but by applying it to your design process, it allows the designer to see the material clearly, having the designer to be able to organize the material in a less "predictable, yet illuminating way." Its a different approach to bring into your layout and how you typically do things; but it can help trigger a different approach or take on the content. For example, changing the point size on a typeface, without changing the position or that different patterns can happen depending on different brush size or gesture.
DeleteAt one point in time, design was being made with out any kind of grid. Then one day, it was decided that grids should be used to bring order to chaos. And now we are between using grids and not using grids all the time. Chance operation doesn’t work for EVERY design, but it CAN work.
ReplyDelete“Chance operation moves beyond like and dislike and becomes something more resembling an act of nature.”
So, in a sense chance operation is like taking a risk and going outside of the box, outside of the grid, outside of the ‘rules’. I’m sure many designers have used this without even knowing.
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ReplyDeleteSo - how do we know a CHANCE OPERATION when we see it? Won't it simply look like a designer who doesn't know how to use the grid? OR... .maybe, a design made with Chance by someone who knows how to use the grid looks quite different than from a designer who doesn't have a clue. That's what, in my mind, I would prefer to think... because I've been using grids for many years, and like to think I understand them. But... I have to admit I'm moving away from them when I can... and designing more organically (more by educated Chance).
ReplyDeleteI agree Coni. I Think that Chance operations is a designer who knows how to use the grid but just broke the "rules" sorta of speak. I think personally for me chance operations is too risky for me; I might look into grid destruction more than chance operations.
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