Figure/Ground

After reading the articles, I had a chance to better understand the difference between figure and ground. The way I see it, ground is the background of the design. I would look at it as the white space as of right now. The ground it the part of the design that needs to be filled up with the figure. For that matter, I see the figure as the image that has been created on the ground. These concepts are important because it makes a difference when looking at the image. It's important to know whether one is defining the ground or the figure. There was a good example of this in one of the readings about the vase/face image. In order to understand how such an image is created, I think it's important to know the difference between the ground and figure.

I think I have already used these terms in my own work when designing the first tile. It's important because the more involved we get in creating the tiles, the more difficult it may be to grasp the difference between the ground and figure.

In most of my tiles created so far, there is a clear difference between the ground and the figure. However, I may only know this because I created them. It may be more difficult for someone else to look at a tile and decipher the two.