In our second class with Jill, we took a look at the work of Armin Hofmann. He was famous for his commitment to graphic design’s most basic elements: line, shape, value, texture and color. These, he argued, were the only elements you needed to create the most compelling designs. A dot alone has power and weight while standing alone on a page. Introduce a second dot to the page, and you’ve created tension between the two points. Place those dots closer together, and you create more tension. Return to the single dot, and smear it across the page as it darts to right. Now you have a line. Or align five dots all in a row along a horizontal or vertical axis, you have an implied line. The points guide the eye from left to right or top down.