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Managing Effective Design terms

Use these tools to practice the terms and concepts from Cahpter 2 of The Elements of Design.

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organizationthe key to good design
surfaceelements seen; line, shape, color, etc.
hiddenelements that are transparent to the viewer
clusterthe brain and eye does this when looking at similar elements
gestaltgerman for form, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
formatthe venue and arrangment of design
compsconstruct prototypes taking into account design decisions
field of visionoval shaped, roughly double the width to height
reactanglepsychological association that affects the image will be read
horizontalnature, serenity
verticalcontemporary, architectural,
squareneutral, stable
golden rectangleproporational aid that build internal relationships and aids in hiearchy, eye movement
eye movementbuilt in survival feature that makes the eye scan
themesubject or topic that represents an idea, quality or character
motifa recurrent idea represented
non-objectivenonrepresentable to anything recognizable, makes attempt to depict the real world
abstractresemble but distorts real world
realisticreplicates real world, descriptive, nameable


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