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 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.
An site that discusses all of the importance of color when using it in design. I found this to be quite helpful because it goes more in depth about the symbolism and the science of how color has been used.
Although I know we should not rely on wikipedia for a whole lot of scholarly information, I do believe this wiki page is a very good glimpse into the history of computing and computing hardware.
This is a cool little article that talks about texture in design and how it is used. I thought it was helpful to continue to build knowledge on how to use texture since too much is not a good thing.
This is a quick and to the point resource that provides visual evidence of how value works in design. Watching the creation of a something like this really helps me understand the idea better because, as I have come to learn, I am a very visual learner. (9/19/13)
This website has a short and sweet explanation for all of the elements and principles of design, which I feel like will come in handy later on when/if I need to quickly review some basic differences between the few of them. This page specifically focuses on the importance of value.
We read "The Influencing Machine" this week by the author, Brooke Gladstone. I found this book to be an interesting take on things and wanted to know more about the author. I bookmarked this site because it gives details as well as links to Gladstone's work.
This site gives a great timeline of the history of media. In our readings we read Brooke Gladstone's "The Influencing Machine" where she also gave an interesting account of the history of media.