ENGL307: Digital Writing

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 page is about what visual flow in designs are.

describes way to enhance pages visual flow

Fairly lengthy discussion of flow with examples of good and bad flow elements.

Glasses of milk arranged to resemble teeth.  Advertisement showing milk to give you health teeth.

A bunch of photo editing tutorials for photoshop

Gestalt's expanded from psychology theories to implementation into web design principles.

very detailed look at all of the principles, but I found it while searching for images.

an example of people who take pictures for a living.  What professional pictures look like, etc.

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.

This article is about the different types of contrast in a photo

This is a page on how to get better contrast when taking photos

How to align/rotate a picture

How to correct photo alignment using Photoshop

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

"Emphasis creates a focal point in a design; it is how we bring attention to what is most important"