Yearbook; Elements of Design » graphic:DESIGN:basics

I was looking for things to help Yearbook students with graphic design and layouts when I stumbled on this site that I think could be useful to Yearbook staffers, Web Design students, and probably elementary teachers too, and really anybody who's interested in learning more about art or design!

If you're really into graphic design, the author of this site is a designer herself and textbook author who offers graphic design basics, competitions, news, interviews, book reviews, and more.

Elements of Design » graphic:DESIGN:basics

Elements of Design

These are the ingredients to any design project, whether it’s a way to set up your garden to a map that shows people who to go from here to the moon. The ingredients, like those within a cake, often interact with each other to the point that the cake wouldn’t exist if one of these elements were missing.

Principles of Design

These are the tools that blend the ingredients for any design project. You can use all the design elements, but if you don’t blend them with rhythm, balance, contrast, etc., then you don’t have a cake.