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I liked this article the best. It discuses flow within web designs and it covers all the basis for smooth flow for people that are trying to create their own web page. It covers what design flow is and gives an image example of how flow flows within a graphic design. The author states that it is important to create an entry point, "something that stands out from everything else so that most people look at it first". The author also gives advice on controling flow within a design by using arrows, people or faces that look in a certain direction, and perspective. Using space to control flow is something that I found interesting the author states that "varying the space between a series of elements can be used to create rhythm and motion".

I found this website to be very helpful when it came to discussing flow and how to achieve that. Besides talking about using visual cues to guide the readers eyes, using space to control flow, and creating harmony using flow, it also gives examples of various websites that have demonstrated good flow of design.

Control the way your eyes moves through a design by starting off with an object that will catch the viewers attention. How to control the flow oif your design by using visual cues to guide the eyes in that direction. Creating space to control flow and also creating harmony using flow.

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 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."

A page on teaching what design flow is and how it works. Teaches you how to keep the reader's eye and make them follow the 'flow'.

This is a good website to help you understand what flow is and the different types of flow. It talks about verbal flow and visual flow. It also goes on to explain how to improve your verbal flow and your visual flow.

This webpage incorporates more details about many key aspects of flow that were also mentioned in chapter seven. There are tips to improving visual and verbal flow within a page and also how to add flow across an entire site involving many pages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This website will help many of us with project 2. There are great tip on alignment, which is very important in a web page layout.

This website gives some good information on different types of alignment and how it can be used. It compares the importance of alignment in the real world and how it can be used in design. This website also demonstrates the importance of a clean cut design in order to be less distracting.

This is my favorite becaue it is a teaching site. It has a wonderful way of explaining the different desing elements. There are tutorials and various design strategies to use to get a very creative piece of work.

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.

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 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.

Graphic design, extensive information

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.

Great description for the basics of design with illustrations for how to do a layout.

extensive information and articles about design and layout, especially in web design