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This website provides an easy to follow guide on whether or not to design your website to be realistic or abstract. It points you in the right direction depending on your goals for the project. This would be very useful for a web designer trying to decide whether or not they want to use an abstract design with their website.

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 is from Stanford University. It has a great deal of infomation about fair use and other copyright issues. It has links to other useful information and including youtube

This page is about 25 different examples of emphasis

25 Examples of Emphasis Applied in Web Design

This website provides several examples of how emphasis can be used in web design. It shows how proportion, contrast and physical relationship can be added to create this sense of emphasis. The easiest method of creating emphasis seems to be contrast. It is very easy to create contrast by simply using different, contrasting colors.

Blog about the "when to" of graphic design - implementing images.

When you should use images in web design

Sort of a guide to figuring out what is and isn't fair use

Alignment used on websites.  Just like in the newspaper Pilot Online also uses alignment and columns to organize the content.

How to properly use light and color for contrast. 

explains which fonts to use and when to use them, what size your font should be, etc..

Fair Use Scenarios

Quick reference to emphasis in design.

about.com page on emphais

Goes beyond explaining emphasis and provides useful tips and ideas regarding the actual use of emphasis in varying levels of design. (Week 10, 11/30)

Using social media for professional and personal use.

Dives into the matters of fair use and social media. Up to date on current issues and an organization, not commercial web site!

Educational standpoint on copyright and fair use

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

May actually distract from the main idea when used excessively << Here's a wiki! Similar to the one we created! On the advantages, disadvantages, how to use and examples of repetition.

there are no easy rules for fair use - if you want to take advantage of its flexibility, you have to understand its complexities!

The divide is no longer about access; it's about how technology is used and having the knowledge to use it.

Fair Use and it's benefits

found some interesting things about music, such as as long as you don't stray to far from the orignal work song structures and their lyrics are not protected under the copyright laws.