Graphics

The graphic design principle that best conveys a sense of lightness is Transparency.  As Lupton and Phillips explain in Graphic Design The New Basics,

“Transparency also can serve to built complexity by allowing layers to mix and merge together.  Transparency can be used thematically to combine or contrast ideas, linking levels of content.  When used in a conscious and deliberate way, transparency contributes to the meaning and visual intrigue of a work of design,” (Lupton 147).

These transparent layers of clothing look weightless, airy, and light. The transparency allows you to see so much more of the outfit.

The aesthetic experience with my piece of E-Lit is created through the use of transparency.  The different surfaces of the block have different levels of transparency, allowing the back layers of the block to be seen well through closer layers.  When a work has a sense of transparency, and there is a sense that you can look through different layers, the reader or viewer is able to drift lightly into the work and become more connected to it.  It is the transparency of the block that conveys a sense of lightness and weightlessness of the work.