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Design Design Foundations Understanding Aesthetics Contrast & Balance

Has anyone collected the Vocabulary from the Design Foundations course?

I find my self only remembering the vocab until the next quiz.

6 Answers

Angie Giblin
Angie Giblin
2,097 Points

Wow! Great notes! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm not sure mine are put-together as well as yours. :-)

Endre Ujhelyi
Endre Ujhelyi
7,614 Points

This is awesome Robin. Thanks.

Stein Rijs
Stein Rijs
4,265 Points

Thank you for these notes Robin!

This is what I have done up as a list of Vocab. I think it has everything in it.

Design Foundations:

Architecture: Durability, Usability, Beauty Graphics System User-interface Symbolize Summarize Typeface Format: "Blank Page", Picture Plane & Frame. Elements: Point Line: Arc Length Thickness = weight Organic Symmetrical Rough Jagged Quality of Primary Visual Elements Shape: External Form, Appearance Size, Scale, Ratio of Scale Texture: Implied, Visual Colour: Tint Tone Shade Complimentary Value Tonal Key: High, Intermediate, Low Range: Low, High

The Ten Principles of Good Design: Less, but Better. 1. Innovative 2. Useful Product 3. Aesthetic 4. Understandable Product 5. Unobtrusive 6. Honest 7. Long-lasting 8. Thorough -- details 9. Environmentally Friendly 10. Little design as possible

Design: Simultaneous Contrast Optical Mixing Composition Structure : loose/organic, rigid/geometric Elements = positive figures -- Foreground, complete figure Empty space = background Figure Ground: equal inverse Techniques: Rule of Thirds, Rule of Odds, Rule of Space Contrast Balance: Symmetrical, Radial Emphasis: Intentional Focus, Focal Point, Isolation, Movement/Animation Movement: Implied, Rhythm Unity: Consistency Space: Ambiguous, Impossible, Atmospheric Perspective, Linear Perspective, 3D, White Space Grouping: Gestalt Principles: Touching, Overlapping, Transparency, Union, Subtraction, Intersection; Similarity, Continuity, Common Fate, Familiarity

Checklist: 1. Description 2. Analysis: Style, Elements, Principles of Design 3. Interpretation: Intent, Creator's Influence, your Feelings. 4. Judgement

It didn't keep my formatting haha

Barbara Orts
Barbara Orts
10,584 Points

Notes are great! thanks Robin

I loved both the notes. Thank you.

Viv Fouracre
Viv Fouracre
9,062 Points

Great notes, thanks