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D#1, HW#13 I really enjoyed this website for a couple different reasons. First of all, the design process is similar to that in the book, but yet it has a different approach because it is for an architectural piece, instead of a web site or banner for example. I also enjoyed it because it is not only a list of the concepts for the designer process, but it is also the steps that this particular architectural design teams uses and wants to share with their customers. This shows those customers that they have a structured plan and as a customer you can know where you are in the time line of your design and build process. Although the design process is not exactly the same as the book, it uses the same concepts from beginning with a blank page and sketching out ideas, to ending with details helping to make the project personal to the audience.

D#1, HW#13-3websites This website highlights some key points also included in chapter 1, in giving advice for movie posters. This is so interesting to me because I am very interested in production design and its great to see design aspects correlate to movies as well. I love to study the conversion point between design and movies.

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D#1, HW#13-3websites.  This page has some amazing examples of print publication layouts :)

D#1, HW#13-3websites. Shopping Bag designs are included in the list of layout design formats as per Chapter 1. I came across this website and thought so many of the designs were so playful and attention grabbing. Great for marketing!

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D#13 HW#1--push fave web resource that will help you improve your Wordpress course blog: **This is a good one because it extrapolates on the "design" portion of a blog. It indicates what turns people off about blogs and how they can be more attractive design-wise. For instance uploading your photo is a big plus. It's a Do's and Don'ts on blog design so to speak.

This was my second favorite of the sites that I visited. This site shows the design mistakes that bloggers often make. It haves ten mistakes, explains why they are mistakes and weaknesses. I found this all very helpful, and I found it to be a very useful list of 'rules' to help one make a successful blog.

Web site contains basic understanding of balance and all principle elements of design.

This website gives you the idea of composition and design principles that helps you understand the effect repetition in a design. There are several ways to use repetition in a design. Repetition gives motion so it can be used in all designs that have visual element.

This website was very informative and gave many examples demonstrating how to incorporate visual elements within page design. It also defines and describes design principles, many of which match up with the principles listed in Chapter 1 of our book on pages 12 and 13.

let's try that again, I put the D#13, etc in the url address in the previous post sharing this. Not going to get you there...sorry

One designer's commentary on design and explanation of his design processes. I like this site because it gives explanations of the design process with good visual examples as well as offers pointers on things to avoid when designing. This particular article has a good explanation of the process of copywriting. It's cool to see the designer's process - from brainstorm, to thumbnails, to final published product - alongside his explanation of it.

This website features a lot of tips that would have the beginner to develop an attractive, yet effective website. One thing they recommend is writing your information as if in answer to a question, since that is the most common reason for a person to visit any particular site - to search for the answer to a question.

This web page provides some useful information on outlining, the concept covered on pages 9 to 11 in Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

This website was interesting because it breaks down the process of designing a flyer into simple steps. Flyers were used as models for graphic design on pages 16 and 17 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

The colors in a design are very important and they should be used very carefully. The primary and secondary and tertiary colors are important to know and understand for your design to look nice.

This site specifically relates to graphic design, but still demonstrates design basics. It looks at such things as target audiences and knowing the message you want to send.

This site demonstrates the process of design basics. It specifically refers to graphic design, and shows the importance of knowing your target audience and the message you want to send.

This web page discusses the graphic design process, a concept discussed on pages 14 and 15 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

Blog with a short video interview of Daniel Pink, author of "A Whole New Mind" which teaches to surround ourselves with good design. It starts slow, but is worth watching.

Audience, layout, color and more are covered with many good links.

Study questions on Daniel Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind," which has a chapter on design. Other chapters in the book also have tips on good design. I really love Dan Pink's design viewpoint, which is that we can find or create good design in everything.

On this website it was a more condesned version of what was covered in the text reading. It really did not go into depth like the book did on each topic but it did touch on the topics giving a brief descrpition along with pictures. This website would most likely be used for someone who is new to the whole design and layout field.

This website was what the reading in Basic of desgin would call KISS because it covered everything that we read but it covered it in a simpler version. It gave little pictures along with each topic that associated with the topic.

I looked up more information on copywriting because one of my closest friends recommended it as a career path for me. She told me how much she admired their expertise in the marketing fields. This site will be useful if I decide to pursue this career path. I still have so much to learn!