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This website explains what graphic design is, and the basics of graphic design. Career information is given for anyone that is interested in using graphic design for their career. Also, it gives you a list of different types of schools that you could be interested in looking into if you want to further your career in graphic design. It states that graphic design is a "creative career that finally rewards you for all of those doodles you'd make during class."

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.

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.

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.

A brief overview of the book, Data Flow 2, Visualizing Information in Graphic Design. Shows some photos and charts that illustrate good flow and uses the words "Eye Candy." Includes links to three other sources, such as Clothing Maps of Europe and London Tube Maps. There is a link to information on their review of the book, The Visual Miscellaneum.

CVI - Center of Visual Impact - supersize one graphic at least three times larger than everything else for emphasis.

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.

Graphic design, extensive information

This website was sweet and simple. It is a graphic designer blog and lists 12 techniques for implementing flow into websites. I have listed a few tips that stood out to myself. -Place headlines near articles -Choose an easy-to-read serif typeface such as Times Roman or Garamo -Use columns that are neither too wide nor too narrow -Place quotes on the page with the text it reinforces

A resource for those interested in improving their own personal blog designs or would like to learn more about utilizing graphic design software to achieve specific effects.

This blog site is a great resource for everything from blog design essentials to graphic design tutorials.

This article is my favorite because not only does it give helpful information on how to use balance in graphic design, but it also provides great examples too.

DD #4 HW #1 This article has great information about design with very nice examples. Some of it I was surprised that they were talking about balance because I didn't really see it that way but in reading about it, it makes more sense! I thought this was great information.

Great example of asymmetrical balance in web design. The use of green in the graphic really offsets the type adjacent to this design element.

This website begins with a description of the steps in the design process. It covers all of the ones that were also in our textbook such as analyzing audience, determining purpose of message, choosing the right format and layout. There were only four principles covered in this website which were those of balance, emphasis, rhythm which we can consider as flow, and unity which we can consider to be alignment. -What i liked about this website is that it offered explanations about the elements of design such as lines, shapes, and colors. I liked that it gave us the table on the "Psychology of color". It will be very useful especially when we think about the objective and audience of the message.

This website provided useful tips about the elements of design such as color, lines, and shapes that will be helpful when beginning to design. It will also help when considering who your target audience is and what the objective is!

 Although visually pretty dry, has a pretty comprehensive treatment of design basics.

This webpage describes Horizontal, Vertical, Edge, Center, and Visual Alignment styles to create a layout that is visually pleasing. It also says that good alignment is invisible, because viewers only notice when a page is not aligned correctly.

Includes a "Categories of Works" section discussion the types of works covered by copyright, such as literary works, musical and dramatic works, pantomimes and choreography, pictorial and graphic works, sculptures, films and other audiovisual works, sound recordings, and finally architectural works. Copyrighted works can fall into more than one category (a play is both a literary and dramatic work, for example) and the list is not exhaustive. A work that doesn't seem to fit into any of these categories could still be covered by copyright if it is "an original work of authorship." The chapter then covers each category in more detail. Literature, for example, is defined not just as novels and plays but also movie scripts, letters, email messages, blogs, computer programs, and even souvenir T-shirt messages. It also doesn't have to be tangible; a short story doesn't need to be published in physical format to be copyrighted.

This article is about the Design Process. There are steps you should follow in order to achieve the best results. This article outlines those steps and explains them. The steps are: Gather Information, Create and Outline, Harness your creativity, Sketch and Wireframe, Design multiple versions and revise.

a general definition for Rhetoric

rhetorical definitions

-Right justified log in box at the top -Centered graphics with constant color scheme -Bottom group links, with constant left justified links -Plenty of white space