Monday, November 7, 2011

Review Week 12

How can you, as the designer, use principles of design to help compose a page?
You can use principles of design to use them to express the message of the work. All the different principles of design are used to make different things. You can use certain principles of design to make emphasis and have certain things want more of the attention.



What are the principles of design (define each in your own words)?
repetition - the repeating of certain aspects or principles throughout the whole artwork.
proportion - the relative size or scale of each element in the design, and the proportion of the parts of the design to the whole design.
balance - the distribution of heavy and light elements on the page.
emphasis - where your eye tends to go first, where the designer wants most of the viewers attention to be.
unity - the wholeness of a composition. the way that all of the elements work together. 
variety - the usage of many different principles and elements in a design.
figure - forms, silhouettes, or basic objects
ground - the space around the figures, or the space that makes up the figures.
rhythm - the continuity, reoccurrence, or organized movement in space and time.
contrast - when two related elements are different. the greater the difference the greater the contrast.

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