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Basic Elements of Visual Design:: Dots Lines Shapes Composition

This document discusses the basic elements of visual design including dots, lines, shapes, and composition. It asks what the qualities of each element are, how they are used, and how they relate to digital media. It also examines how these basic elements can be combined together and the different principles that govern their combination, such as balance, symmetry, regularity, simplicity and others.

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Basic Elements of Visual Design:: Dots Lines Shapes Composition

This document discusses the basic elements of visual design including dots, lines, shapes, and composition. It asks what the qualities of each element are, how they are used, and how they relate to digital media. It also examines how these basic elements can be combined together and the different principles that govern their combination, such as balance, symmetry, regularity, simplicity and others.

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Basic elements of

visual design:
Dots
Lines
Shapes
Composition
Basic elements of
visual design:
What are the qualities of each?
How are they used?
What is their relation to digital media?
How are they combined together?
Balance Instability
Symmetry Asymmetry
Regularity Irregularity
Simplicity Complexity
Unity Fragmentation
Economy Intricacy
Understatement Exaggeration
Predictability Spontaneity
Activeness Passiveness
Subtlety Boldness
Neutrality Accent
Transparency Opacity
Consistency Variation
Flatness Depth
Singularity Juxtaposition
Sequentially Randomness
Sharpness Diffusion
Continuity Episodicity

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