Proportional Balance
Proportion of the product's parts and sizes to create a balanced, beautiful form
The five levels
Each anchor describes what separates one level from the next — not a general description of quality. This is the text the evaluator itself reads.
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Level 1 Below Standard
Off proportions making the product look odd
Example A huge handle on a small body
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Level 2 Approaching
Acceptable proportions with one part upsetting the balance
Example The form is good but its base is larger than needed
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Level 3 At Standard
Balanced proportions making the product easy on the eye
Example The product's parts proportionate and harmonious
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Level 4 Above Standard
Deliberate proportions giving the product a noticeable elegance
Example A proportion making the product look finer than its price
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Level 5 Exemplary
Exceptional proportions making each part feel like the only right one
Example It's hard to imagine any part at a different size
Where does your own work sit on these levels?
Submit one work to be read against this criterion alone: your position across the five levels, why you are not higher and why not lower, three literal quotes from your own work, and one exercise with its success check. Your first card is free.
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Executing product with precision and attention to detail
The five levels →Choosing materials appropriate to product and ensuring their quality
The five levels →Aesthetic choices making product beautiful and desirable
The five levels →The product performing its intended function efficiently and comfortably
The five levels →Offering a solution or design that sets the product apart from the market's repetition
The five levels →Tight joints and a piece that holds functionally: the joint bears load, the vessel doesn't leak, the structure doesn't loosen.
The five levels →The cleanliness of the work's last five percent: surface, edges, finishing — what separates the amateur from the maker.
The five levels →Conformance of Islamic ornament / Sadu to its geometric rules: the grid, closing repetition, star symmetry.
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