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Composition & Layout

A topic within Design Fundamentals, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.

Reading on Composition & Layout

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Book1910

Design in Theory and Practice

Ernest A. Batchelder

Argues that ornament should grow out of a structural analysis of line and mass proper to its material and purpose, and teaches design as a series of exercises in that structural thinking rather than styles to copy.

Design · Design Fundamentals
FreeIntermediate
Book1926

Point and Line to Plane

Wassily Kandinsky

Argues that point, line and plane are not neutral marks but carry inherent tension and direction, so composition is the deliberate organisation of these forces rather than the arrangement of shapes.

link checked 17 Sept 2026
Design · Design Fundamentals
FreeIntermediate

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