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Persuasion/rhetoric. Another great real life connection to rhetoric in our daily lives. This video breaks down the top 3 aspects of rhetoric Pathos, Ethos and Logos. It explains it based on a situation that happened a few years ago when a famous world renowned violinist played for free in a subway station, with all the passersby being unaware that is would usually cost over a hundred dollars to watch him play.

Persuasion/rhetoric. Another great real life connection to rhetoric in our daily lives. This video breaks down the top 3 aspects of rhetoric Pathos, Ethos and Logos. It explains it based on a situation that happened a few years ago when a famous world renowned violinist played for free in a subway station, with all the passersby being unaware that is would usually cost over a hundred dollars to watch him play.

Three-minute video on the history of rhetoric. Nice brief-yet-informative video on the basic concepts and other nice tidbits that provides good background knowledge.

Alignment is the adjustment of an object in relation with other objects (wikipedia). You are aware of left alignment (often called left justify) and right alignment. By alignment here, we mean the way every element is positioned in comparison to the other element

Tile is a small object including an RFID as described in Chapter 3 of "The Computer." The advantages of these devices are easily understood, but privacy could be a concern, as well. As suggested by Ince, many individuals are uncomfortable with their personal locations can be monitored. Tile's ability to send your location to other Tile users could make some uncomfortable with the concept. As someone who misplaces my keys regularly, I am willing to take the privacy risk!

This page goes into depth about space as discussed in Chapter 3 and has more images so it is easier for me to see the positive/negative space for example.

This website provides information on the elements of design, including texture, and how important it can be to interior design, which I find interesting. It is truly incredible how much these elements can influence our daily lives outside of digital media.

I wanted to find another site with a more in depth explanation and found one with totally new elements that can be used to improve layout and design. Most of these examples I have never heard of besides focal point and grid design, but you can never know too many new ways in order to improve your delivery, right?

More on rhetorical functions that I thought would interest the class

Ch 3 BOD- Contrast This site talks about contrast form a web designer's perspective. It breaks down contrast into elements of size, classification, color, cases,style and decoration, weight and space.

Chapter 3: Tying into contrast with color -- a series of links to check the accessibility of your website and make sure the contrast is appropriate/functional.

breaks down different typefaces and suggest when each should be used

"Contrast occurs when two elements on a page are different."

Site point is a website dedicated to improving websites step by step.

Site point is a website dedicated to improving websites step by step.

Formal Report: A Powerpoint presentation addressing all parts of constructing a formal report, from beginning to end, including references. Very in depth, while managing to keep strictly to the point.

Within the video are several examples of positive space and negative space in designs, detailing how both work hand in hand in creating a dynamic aesthetic. 

walks you through anything you could want to do! very cool!

How lines can create three dimensional images

Balance is one of the important points the success of a design. Everyone loves the convenience to what they see. Balance in graphic design can be achieved by adjusting the visual weight of each element, both in terms of scale, color, contrast, etc.

Push 3 - I feel like this will be beneficial to completing my first project because it clearly states the purpose of technical writing and goes over various processes of planning prior to the initial drafting process

Chapter 2 push #3 from Becca Bingham

Chapter 1 Push #3 from Becca Bingham