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Rules of Design




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"Design is thinking made visual."
-- Saul Bass




Bold Colors

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Be Bold... or not. It's all ok!

Contrast is an incredibly useful tool for both highlighting and hiding certain elements of your design. By upping the contrast or using a high contrast feature color, you can help an element stand out and draw attention. Likewise, by lowering the contrast, you can make an element fade into the background.

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Scale and hierarchy

Scale and visual hierarchy are some of those creative fundamentals that can really make or break your designs, so it’s important to have a good hold on them to maintain a successful composition. In a very brief explanation, hierarchy is the arrangement and design of elements in order to visually signal importance.

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Scale


White Space

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White space is your friend

The easiest way to offend white space is to refer to it as ‘empty space’. Emptiness implies that it should be full of something, that it’s not doing its job, but this is not quite the case. White space when used strategically can help boost your design’s clarity and overall look by balancing out the more complicated and busy parts of your composition with space that helps your design to breathe.

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