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This is a really really good website that talks about the design element of balance. It not only gives good definitions about the different types of balance, it also provides very good pictures that clearly demonstrate what balance is and how it is used in art as well as graphic design.

This page gives a good definition of the principle of balance and gives good examples.

This site gave some great additional insights into how balance can be used in design. It was nice to get another perspective in addition to the book. It explained it effectively and in simpler terms. Definitely worth the read!

JayDax website is developed by a husband wife team, (John and Shelia Chapman) http://www.jaydax.co.uk/lastsupper/lastsupper.htm Rhetorical Analysis: This is a painting of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. The purpose of this painting is to depicting the scripture in the Gospel of John 13:21,, in the Holy Bible. The targeted audiences are people who are Christians, artist, bible and historian scholars. Understanding the individuals in the painting are biblical, namely Jesus Christ in center of painting establishes a portion of the targeted audience, and the fact that it is a well known painting of Da Vinci establishes the art and historian scholar audience. Design Analysis: The painting is very good example of visual weight. Both symmetrical and asymmetrical balanced are use. Jesus is centered as well as the arch in the center of the table and the apostles are depicted on both sides of Jesus using symmetrical balance. When examining the table setting of the food symmetrical balance is used. Other examples of symmetrical balance are the rear windows, the gridded ceiling. All of these examples convey the definition of symmetrical as history, dignity, and formality. Asymmetrical balance in seen in the arches, one side is colored in and on side white space is used providing contrast and visual weight. Although the panels on the wall are symmetrical the contrast used on the left side provides an unequal, asymmetrical, balance.

This website gives more in depth information about the design concept of balance. It gives several examples of balance with an explanation of how a particular image is balanced. This website is useful because of the examples it gives since the concept of balance is somewhat confusing.

BALANCE. This website expands more on how one can achieve balance in a layout, specifically with symmetrical and asymmetrical balancing. It also provides examples of each balancing act to highlight the methods described in the website.

Another great website explaining balance including radial balance, vertical balance, and horizontal balance.

Breaks down other forms of balance: radial, vertical. and horizontal balance with example of each

CHAPTER4- BALANCE This website dives into the principle of balance and the different types. It also explains what can influence balance. (size, texture, orientation, etc.)

An article about balance in visual design that has a break down of different elements of balance.

"Balance is the equal distribution of visual weight in a design. "

Some more advanced principals of design that can be used to attract readers. This particular page goes over how elements in web page design can be put in balance to create greater (or lesser) impact to an audience.

The about.com page on balance in design.

I think this is a great resource because it caters directly to digital writing in that it is aimed at how balance works and can be achieved in web design. (10/14)

Balance explained using show cased examples, symmetrical balance, and asymmetrical balance.

This site gave a fantastic explanation of balance in web design. I actually think I got more from reading this than I did reading the text book. I loved the visual examples that this gave. Definitely a good read.

breaksdown symmetry into subcatorgories

Balance is concerned with the distribution of visual interest -- what is where in a composition. << This source gives further understanding for balance and shows how symmetry is related to it. 

Another article with more details and a more clear layout to understand different sections of balance within design.

Gives better examples on asymmetrical balance and also gives a more in depth definition of what this type of balance is.

Principle of design using balance in art, shows example of balance used as a means to control gravity (balance) in art work.

Chapter 4: A thorough explanation of balance in web design, with examples, including types of balance other than just symmetrical and asymmetrical; such as radial, etc.

another about.com page explaining balance in application.

another about.com page explaining balance in application.

JayDax website is developed by a husband wife team, (John and Shelia Chapman) http://www.jaydax.co.uk/lastsupper/lastsupper.htm Rhetorical Analysis: This is a painting of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. The purpose of this painting is to depicting the scripture in the Gospel of John 13:21,, in the Holy Bible. The targeted audiences are people who are Christians, artist, bible and historian scholars. Understanding the individuals in the painting are biblical, namely Jesus Christ in center of painting establishes a portion of the targeted audience, and the fact that it is a well known painting of Da Vinci establishes the art and historian scholar audience. Design Analysis: The painting is very good example of visual weight. Both symmetrical and asymmetrical balanced are use. Jesus is centered as well as the arch in the center of the table and the apostles are depicted on both sides of Jesus using symmetrical balance. When examining the table setting of the food symmetrical balance is used. Other examples of symmetrical balance are the rear windows, the gridded ceiling. All of these examples convey the definition of symmetrical as history, dignity, and formality. Asymmetrical balance in seen in the arches, one side is colored in and on side white space is used providing contrast and visual weight. Although the panels on the wall are symmetrical the contrast used on the left side provides an unequal, asymmetrical, balance.

Discussion of balance with plenty of examples.

Video that explains the principle of Balance in design

Two examples of balance in a photo

This is an article about balance in a photo.

This is a short article on creating balance in a photo. I thought it was very informative.

Balance used in advertising.  The coke bottles increase and then decrease in size; the largest being in the middle. Folding the ad in half results in the same amount of bottles being seen on each half.  The same couple colors are used without giving it a uniform, balanced feel

Advertisement.  Main image centered in the middle with a simple colored background. Balance is seen with the image which displays symmetrical balance