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Contrast: focal point is an image of a laptop, aligned to the left with its description to the right. Gives a lot of empty space around it to make it your main focus. Besides the focal image other images pop against the black background. Repetition: Menu items are linked blue at the top of the page. Smaller unimportant items linked blue and smaller at the bottom. Alignment: Everything is aligned to the left in each group. Proximity: Under focal point are 4 groups with category titles that you can click to enlarge to see different related aspects of the site.

This website is a very good example of how to design a website. Everything is very aesthetically pleasing, and follows the CRAP principles.

This website is a simple representation of how emphasis can be used for a designer.

I really liked this site. I have quite an extensive art background, but the book allowed me to see it in type form. What also caught my eye on this page was the Emphasis of Isolation. I think when one object is seperated from a group, it creates great emphasis and meaning. Also color.

This website gives several illustrations, some in color, to illustrate emphasis in design and focal points.

For those interested in abstract art and photography, this is a great page. It covers the principle of emphasis by providing excellent examples of art.

I really liked this website because it showed how emphasis is necessary for artist creating paintings! Emphasis not only applys to composition and graphic design but also in art!

This website is more about art and paintings, but is a very good example of emphasis and focal points. The page gives good examples on how to create a focal point from focal area, color dominance, value contrasts, visual movement, difference, and shape. Each section has different paintings from various artists but very good examples and ideas of how to lay out things and where the person observing will focus according to your layout.

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 provides a concise explanation of emphasis and ways to use it effectively. It gives you three questions to ask yourself that were also stated in our text in order to identify which is the primary message of emphasis, which is the second, etc. I like that it provides examples of emphasis and by clicking on the image, they tell you what is emphasized in the picture and how the focal point is established.

I think this link is the best representation of CRAP because it is simple and very appealing to the eye. Contrast: A lot of white background. Large focal Image and set to the entire left side of page. Louis Vuitton large and bold. Repetition: All text is brown and in capital letters. Less important items are not all capitalized and smaller. Alignment: To the left Proximity: Each location is grouped into correct continent. Each group is given appropriate and equal space in-between.

This is another good website that uses the CRAP principles. Everything is consistent, and it is very pleasing to the eye.

Good article on controlling where you want your viewer to look by emphasing objects and the different ways to accomplish.

this page gives a lot of information on differetn aspects of using emphasis dominance subordination contrast color/value size shape placement isolation proportion

This site went into great detail. Like the book, the site described that the bigger something is, the more important it must be. It also makes an argument for the center being the most important of placing. But could that really be true if something bigger and more noticable was off center?

Interesting page that provides examples of art with and without emphasis. It also has links to other sections which cover other design principles; useful for the future sections.

I really like this website because it gives a more thorough description of Emphasis when it comes to design. You achieve emphasis by creating a focal point.

This is just a solid, bare-bones explaination of emphasis that can transcend many different types of media. This site applies mostly to the fine arts, but as we've seen in the book, type and multimedia can benefit as well

I like how this site talks about texture. Texture can be used on a blog to send a vibe of yourself to the readers. This is important because readers who follow your blog want to feel like they know you.

Emphasis can be used in many ways other then writing. The concept is the same just a different median. I chose to use this webpage as a bookmark because it shows emphasis in body language. These are techniques used by the body to exaggerate or use movements to create a focal point.

I felt like this page had some great visuals and definitions of what balance is. I love how they describe that colors can actually "weigh" more than others. I like that they offered new terms like radial balance and mosaic balance (chaotic balance). They gave examples of every concept that they talked about and in a wide range of designs. The writer also does a silly example of making a formula for balance.

Here is a more general article about balance. It uses physical balance as an example to help explain what balance in design is using both the vertical and horizonal axis. The article discusses visual weight in design elements, explaining how each element can effect balance. It also addresses the types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial, and mosaic balance.

I stumbled on this page while looking for information on dominance in a web page. As it turns out this whole site has a cornucopia of supplemental information that would probably help out later on in the term. But this page in particular is great because they show simple black and white, literally, diagrammed explanations of how the idea really works.

This web page discusses the concept of focal points, which is covered on page 26 in (Graham, 2005).

Beside photos and written pieces, the principles of contrast can also be applied to objects. The color contrast in this design is clear. The pink sitting area on this bookshelf is the main focal point of this piece. 

This website provides a definition of emphasis as well as describes the importance of using emphasis in your design. It makes a good point by saying that if everything is equally emphasized then the design can look too busy. I like that the author of the webpage gives tips on how to include emphasis in designs.

Free online lesson about the rule of thirds and visual centers.

Contrast-spacing is very linar squares and rectangles, a focal point is the red at the top to attract attention to the site and have their viewers interested. The headings of most importance are in black bold size color, and the text is smaller and in a bluecolor.Color is attractive to where it is eye catching but easy on the eyes with black, white , blue, and red. Repetition-again the color is repatative with red, black, and white. repetative elements such as video clips and new. The format, of it is organized, with the subjects running along the top of the page that allows the viewer to go to exactly they want to know. below the subject tabs there are groups of related information for example how the bottom of the top news there are bullet points of what the news is about. Then towards the bottom of the website there are grouped topics that have the topics of which the tabs on the top. Except these have subtext to other related topics that fall under that subjects they are in a same size box which groups them. Allignment-nothing is centered all text is left justifyed, the information is visually connected to find information much easier and all is aligned to one box or another. Proximity-related items all the headers of the news each have its own box and all the news are related is under each of the heading, The white/light grey backround is evenly separated to give it a balance.

Contrast: CNN is centered and bold white against a red background, which makes it easy to read. Breaking and main news stories are in groups of three and set as the largest images at the top of the page. Bold white text against a black background makes the focal point pop. Repetition: Menu items are white against red background in smaller text under CNN. All links are blue, bullets red, titles bold large and black. Alignment: everything aligned to left for each grouping object. Proximity: News is categorized into different groups, i.e.) world, business, entertainment... etc.

I think CNN is a great example of a grid - a very sophisticated look. The beginning is a 3 grid and as you scroll it transfers to a 4 grid. They really make the most of the white space and keep it very organized with a justified text.

CNN has both different text sizes and color. Also with this, there are different borders within 1 page to show the many different stories and sections that are being highlighted within a page

Emphasis in Design

This website brought to light some very interesting concepts in a humorous way. Similar to the first site that I bookmarked with Diigo, this site talks about the different ways in which emphasis can be achieved: by placement of the main topic of the site (middle of the page for main information and then information that is the next in importance be in a variety of places - isolated? continued in the line of sight provided?), through contrasting colors, and by changing the proportion of images within the text to make them standout.

This webpage gives visual examples of emphasis and a brief explanation of why each example works to capture our attention first.