Inside and outside in Graphic Communication
I can review the range of ways designers have been inspired by inside and outside.
- Year 10
Inside and outside in Graphic Communication
I can review the range of ways designers have been inspired by inside and outside.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Designers can represent physical and psychological boundaries through interior and exterior spaces.
- Designers might use framing, perspective and scale to connect or separate inside and outside spaces.
- Designs can explore the relationship between personal, private spaces and wider, public or natural settings.
- Some graphic designers explore the boundary between external appearance and internal experience.
Keywords
Space - the area around, between and within objects. It can be physical, like a room, or it can be visual
Threshold - a point of change, a space between two different areas
Barrier - things that block, separate, or divide spaces, people, or ideas
Framing - how an artist chooses to surround or crop a subject in an artwork
Common misconception
"Inside" and "outside" in design always refers to physical spaces, like buildings or rooms.
In design, "inside" and "outside" can mean more than places — they can show how someone feels on the inside, how people hide emotions, or the contrast between personal and public life.
Equipment
Access to the internet or a library of art books. Sketchbook or paper for recording ideas, pencils, pens.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.True or False: Photographers and designers often respond to a theme by researching and collecting visual references first.
Q2.Which of the following is not a theme a photographer might explore?
Q3.Match the approach to the description:
Q4.True or False: A theme in photography always has only one correct way of being interpreted.
Q5.Why is it important for a photographer to understand the audience when responding to a theme?
Q6.Match the element of photography to what it can help express:
