Courtesy of P. and F. Corbin

Plate 59

Summary of Steps in Surface Enrichment

(h) Type of Units.

1. What design units are suited to the process selected in (g), appropriate to the texture and structural lines of the form to be enriched and to its ultimate service? Choice may be made from nature, geometric pattern, or historic ornament.

The above points may all be thought out. Now, with some assurance, the designer may take his pencil and begin to draw the units in their proper position upon or about the inceptive axis with the point of concentration correctly placed in position in the inceptive axis. Rules and suggestions for this execution have been previously given.

(i) Designing of the Units.

1. How should the units be drawn to be in harmony with the inceptive axis, the contours, and to each other?