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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.

InDesign talks through a lot of advance and basic concepts in design especially alignment in step by step tutorials.

InDesign talks through a lot of advance and basic concepts in design especially alignment in step by step tutorials.

This site gives step by step directions on how to draw the golden spiral, which I found to be the most changeling concept discussed this week. This site is really helpful if you wanted to use the Golden Spiral rule to give balance to an image.

This site gives step by step directions on how to draw the golden spiral, which I found to be the most changeling concept discussed this week. This site is really helpful if you wanted to use the Golden Spiral rule to give balance to an image.

In advertising, association (or the "association principle") is: A. a persuasion method that links the product with a setting, person, cultural concept, or positive feeling.

Chapter 2 push #2 from Becca Bingham

This website deals primarily with the concept of the visual hierarchy and goes into great detail how it is used to emphasize various aspects of a website or layout.

Helps one to better understand the concept of visual hierarchy and why it's important.

The concept of alignment says that everything on a page should be visually connected to something else on the page.

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.

Remediation is an insightful book because of Bolter and Grusin's relentless tracking down of implications in the "double logic of remediation" (2) and the concepts of remediation, immediacy, transparent immediacy, hypermediacy, and mediation.

This is an article discussing the idea of remediation and the two concepts of remediation. It is an easy explanation of the excerpt from the book that we had to read.

This website goes over ethos, pathos, and logos. It helps me understand the readings better because it gives several examples of each concept. Ethos is ethical appeal that the author uses. Pathos is when the author trying to appeal to the readers emotions. Logos is the logic portion of writing that will begin to make sense to the reader.

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 slide show covers the basics in a pretty pleasing way and outlines the important concepts that we ready about in Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture.

This article was very interesting to read because it talked about sensory association and how it can be used to heal people like in hospitals. Although this article is mostly geared towards interior designers, I feel like designers in new media can also use this concept to make something that help heal someone.

This You Tube video goes over the concept of unity. It goes over the different components that are involved in creating unity. It helped my learn more about unity because there are examples of unity and the person is talking about the different images.

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.

Another example of the Golden Spiral because I found this concept hard to understand at first

This video covers the basic concepts that define balance as a principle of design.

Symmetrical balance is for more formal designs and Asymetrical balance is for more informal designs.

This webpage gives a good definition of balance and proportion and shows some pictures with examples that can help understand the concepts.

I really like this website because it explains different type of alignment. I like that you can move your cursor over objects and the invisible alignment shows.

explains the basic types of alignment and continues to explain it in full with very detailed examples.

Alignment is one of those obvious design concepts that hardly seem worth making a big deal about. << Explains the importance of alignment. 

This website has a slide show about design as a whole in general and the defintions and concepts of emphasis are also pretty good. This slide show is really good.