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20 Rules for Good DesignKick-ass styling tips

From Samara, Design Element: A Graphic Style Manual

Leonardo da Vinci

Concept of Flight Concept of Feminine Beauty

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Coco Chanel sketch

Commercial Art

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“Form Carries Meaning.”Cubism 1908-11: instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint,

Braque and Picasso depicted their subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

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The Bauhaus

The design innovations commonly associated with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus - the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality

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Good design + aesthetics assumes that the visual language of the piece -- its internal logic -- is resolved to address all its parts so they

reinforce, restate and reference each other.

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Ad “Campaigns”

Integration and consistency in ad campaigns helps promote a consistent design message across media and across platforms.

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Focus the viewer’s attention on one important thing first and then lead them through the rest.

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Emphasis

Emphasis is the idea that some things are more important than others. Must establish a focal point and a visual heirarchy.

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Know what colours might mean to your audience.

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Logo design

Colour carries an abundance of psychological and emotional meaning.

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Malevich: The more stuff jammed into a given space, the harder it is to see what we’re supposed to be seeing.

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Hitchcock: Space calls attention to imminent narrative action.

Film Mise En Scene

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Type needs to relate compositionally to everything else in the design.

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Type must still transmit information.

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Graphic design comes

with an agenda.

Create contrasts in density

and rhythm.

Give spaces

between things a pulse.

Create contrasts in density

and rhythm.

Give spaces

between things a pulse.

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A great deal of the process of understanding visual material is the ability to distinguish the difference between things.

Designers need to perceive the visual presence — weight, texture, movement, angularity, transparency, contour.

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Marissa!

Make what you need or

pay someone else to make

original artwork for

you.

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byBrianna!

Design and style a project

around the meaning, not

the audience’s

expectations of current stylistic conceits.

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Designers have to work hard to give 2 dimensional surfaces the sense of movement.

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Shannon!

Learn from the work of others but give it your own spin.

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Symmetrical presentations are often static and offer little movement.