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Test out fonts then add to your collection in Google! Genius! Great for helping to show students how fonts can convey a message.

A lovely collection of fonts 

Heather's fab resources for Visual Literacy.

Colour can help us recall

Poster of the elements of design.

Interesting Apple vid explaining their design approach.

Quotes about design. I particularly like Saul Bass's "Design is thinking made visual" quote

Another data visualisation tool - more sophisticated than Excel

Paste in a raw data set, choose some beautifully designed graphs and charts (infographic style) 

Good visual arrangement for infographics is putting together graphic and visual elements in a manner that draws your reader's attention. The key to achieving simple, elegant and attractive content are ample whitespace and a well arranged layout. What is whitespace? White space is as its name defined-space that is unmarked in a piece of infographic or visual representation. It could be margins, padding or the space between columns, text and icons and design elements. Whitespace matters to create visually engaging content A page crammed full of text and images will appear busy. This makes the content difficult to read. It makes you unable to focus on the important stuff too. On the other hand, too much of white space can make your page look incomplete. It is always crucial to remember visually engaging content is usually clean and simple.

Piktochart design series - 8 articles to design great infographics

I love Instagram because it prompts me to take and share pictures of things that I might otherwise glance at then forget about. Before cell phones entered my life I rarely took pictures. Last week I took the picture that you see below. Almost as soon as it appeared in my Facebook feed via Instagram, my friend Kelly commented with, "shouldn't they be more concerned about weight than the number of people?" Kelly is a middle school math teacher so this picture was right in her wheelhouse of math prompts.

Design resources - links to online self-study

Neat ideas here - love the Matrices - would be a great way to find out about kids at the beginning of the year.

Love these

Excellent article explaining concepts of Graphic Design to 4 year olds.