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This website explains the many routes that repetition can take in design. There are so many ways that a designer can place repetition but the overall concept is to make it in a way that it will look organized and strong. This will appeal to the audience and make it so they will continue to read it.

Here is an article about repetition in web design. This article utilizes screenshots of various web pages and analyzes how repetition was used and what effects it has on the overall feel of each page.

Repetition focuses on how elements of a design are used more than once throughout a design in varying ways. By using repetition a design becomes far more unified. This site contains 4 examples of sites that use repetition.

This was my favorite of the different sites that I found on the topic of repetition. I thought that this site very closely followed what the Basic's of Design taught on the subject. The site gave a background of what repetition is and why it is important. It also gave great examples of different forms of repetition such as; repetition of a image/icon, border, or decoration. It really helped me understand why repetition is such a key component in design!

I like this article because it gives visual examples of repetition used in books, movies, and ads. 

This website has good examples of repetition and they explain it better when having an image. They have good images and good explanation.

This is a good website of how repetition is used.  Even though it is not clearly in the book, it focuses more on repetition in photography by emphasize and break-it.  Emphasize repetition can give impression of size and large numbers of elements in one picture.  Broken repetition can include contrast object or a focal point between the repetition objects in a picture.  

This website is useful because it not only describes what repetition is but it gives quite a few examples of different ways to use repetition in different contexts. For example, it shows how to use repetition in a business card, article, magazine, etc. It also stresses that although repetition occurs naturally, we need to get in the habit to make a conscious effort to use repetition.

This is website gives and introduction about what repetition is and then it goes on to give you various examples, it also tells you how to achieve it, and what to avoid.

This is a good website to look at if you are having trouble understanding how to use repetition in your design elements. It even highlights all of the important key factors that are good to know about repetition.

Information website that demonstrates figures of speech with repetition. It's main topics are general terms for repetition, repetition of letters, symbols, sounds, clause, phrases and ideas. This site is very helpful for writing techniques of repetition.

This website helps with key words and structures when using repetition in writing. Main topics include repetition of words, sentence structures and extended repetition. Overall you will achieve cohesiveness for your writing.

This has very, very little information about repetition but what it does say is very good and it does apply. It states different reasons to use repetition and things that I hadn't thought about, good to read even if you only read the little blog about repetition.

I like this article because it gives you examples on how to use repetition in graphic design. The examples are listed using bullet points which makes it easy to read. 

This website offers some suggestions of the types of elements that can be repeated. Heading and subheading styles, for example, can be varied bu using different colors, stronger fonts, or larger font sizes. A consistent overall color scheme can also help unify a page; this site suggests selecting a few key colors and then applying that throughout the project. Quote I liked: "Repetitive elements create a sense of organization. The effect is the same as using a consistent unit of measurement - it helps interpret the meaning of the object under consideration, and it helps to identify all elements as part of the same site." (Or page/project).

a few good tips about repetition, plus lots of tutorials on other related topics.

This is an interesting article about repetition in design. It uses a kind of "before and after" method to visually demonstrate the effects of repetition and how it can be used to control a readers eye.

This site shows how to make designs more consistent through repetition.

This page is from author Robin Williams, in her voice, good tips.

short and sweet page, not reallly a definition but it does good job explaining what we use repetition for. It also provides a slideshow of pictures if you click on the images to give examples of differetn kinds of patterns and repetition in design

I am pushin' this one just because of the examples in the slide shows that it gives

This Graphic Designer gives tips on how to effectively use repetition in graphic design.

Example of facing book pages that utilize repetition through colors, drop caps, fonts selected and eye catching footnotes.

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.

I think this one is just a great resource on repetition. I especially like the authors use of the acronym. Repetition in design seems like a lot of fun and I can't wait to apply

This photo shows the repetition of color and how i draws attention to the hair of all the women in the crowd. The technique used in this form of repetition was the technique of visually and conceptually related images. The visual aspect is the red hair and fair skin of the women within the photo. The conceptual aspect is all the same hair and skin type people gathering together creates a sense of repetition.

This was the best site i found this week because it explains why they use repetition in advertising and how much of an impact it really use. Without repetition, we wouldn't be able to identify our favorite product. It is a really interesting site and would be a bad idea to check out. 

This website was good at describing the definitions of repetition and also it provided some good picture examples

This article is a basic intro to repetition but it also goes into how to create repetition in various graphic programs out there such as Illustrator, InDesign and QuarkXPress. It's nice and short and provides visuals for reference.

This shows an example of using repetition with punchy red font for the heading and subheads in a newsletter, and how that improves the page. There are before and after images.

Repetition is visually exemplified here. A floral design in a abstract scrapbook image shows repeat squares and flower shaped images conservatively spread out.

This website gave graphical representations of repetition from different aspects of design.  I found the poster of the movie "The Ugly Truth" rather humorous.

I like the way the professional firm explained repetition "The end goal of using repetition typography is to make the eye follow through where the designer needs the eye to go."