11 Dimension / Depth / Space / Scale

This is the album cover of Mariah Carey's album "Merry Christmas II You." The design illustrates a three-dimensional scene in linear perspective. The viewer envisions actual space hence actual objects. The viewers' size perception of the objects depends on the context of the design. The image presents accurate scale with closer objects (such as the snow and human figure) appearing larger and farther objects (such as the stars and blue houses) appearing smaller. The viewer recognizes familiar and relative size. The lines on the brick walls create a texture gradient. The brick wall on the lefthand side particulary positioned at an angle in our perspective. Hence one end of the wall grows larger, stretching outward from the image as the other end grows smaller, stretching inward into the image. (The snow has no texture gradient, so its depth is ambiguous.) Throughout the design, objects overlap each other. Hence the viewer can understand what objects's positions such as: The human figure and snowman are in front of part of the brick wall; the brick walls are in front of the houses; the clouds are in front of the sky and stars.