Nathan Pope

Teresa is a photographer based out of Southern California. Her photographic specialties are portraiture, events, and nature. You can visit her website here

As a graphic designer I have to understand how graphic design can make or break a website. The elements and principles of design are the building blocks used to create every design. The principles of design are the parts that shape all the individual elements. Generally, every design will contain most of, if not all of, the elements and principles of design.

After a very long vacation in various parts of the world I am back and ready to cap off the rest of this article. In this second, and final, part I explain at length the principles of design: Balance, Proportion, Rhythm, Emphasis, and Unity. These principles of design are concepts used to organize or arrange the structural elements of design. The way in which these principles are applied affects the expressive content, or the message of the work.
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The elements and principles of design are the building blocks used to create every design. The elements of design are the parts that make every piece of visual art. No matter whether or not it is viewed as ugly or beautiful, every type of design will contain most of, if not all of, the elements and principles of design.

In part one of this article I explain the basic elements of graphic design; line, form, shape, texture, color, value, and size.
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I recently finished three anatomical, black and white, pen illustrations. It was interesting to try some realistic medical illustrations for a change from my usual free flow stuff. I originally had handwritten the labels and had drawn in the lines by hand. I decided to clean them up with Photoshop and I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.

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