Simple lines and shapes for your logo designWritten by Granny's Mettle
Geometric designs come in all shapes and sizes… and lines. You can create your logo design or customize your illustration by using simple lines and shapes to create your very own unique image.Integrate principle of simplicity with lines, circles, squares, triangles and rectangles, and you'll be able to come up with wonderful results that you can use for logos, newsletters, flyers, brochures, and even web pages. I would just like to emphasize that this article is not your typical 'you-do-this-you-do-that'. It doesn't matter how you manipulate your geometric shapes and lines, as long as you produce results that best exemplify your tastes and specifications. I could only provide you with basics of making your shapes and lines vary in thickness or flow in your media presentation. I will also provide you with ways to use simple shapes in logo design and create other custom graphics using same circle, triangle or square. The final output would definitely be under your creative hands. It's all up to you how you want your logo design to come out. Using lines… Lines can vary in every logo design you create or illustrations you come up with. Innovate and be upbeat when it comes to creating your lines. Lines in general are boring, but with a little adjustment here and there, and a few tuck, lines in your logo design can provide you with means to attract your target audience. Here are some variations you can do to make your lines more interesting and exciting: - vary thickness of your lines; - try to look for patterns that a series of lines make; make use of those patterns; - use dots and dashes, or a combination of both to create your lines; - form barriers with your lines; - direct eyeflow with a series of lines; - indicate connections using variations of lines; - show movement by using lines.
| | The Psychology of Color in Web Design Written by Lala C. Ballatan
Persons engaged in website design, here’s a scoop for you! Would you just like to know that by understanding basics of cognitive psychology around color and patterns, we could further improve our Web design! Designing a Web site does not only concentrate on making web pages of a certain site interesting and impressive. This skill and talent must also be used to ensure user-friendliness of a certain site and must strive to reach widest range of users possible. So what’s this about psychology? It simply implies that by understanding capabilities of human eye, we can produce Website designs that are more user-friendly. Being user-friendly means that our website design will not only cater for normal sighted Internet users but also to those partially sighted, blind or estimated 8-10% of men with red-green colour blindness. If you don’t know anything about vision and colorblindness and their reaction to various designs, then you must start learning now! 'Normal' vision is subject to huge variances. Even size of elements will affect an individual user's perception of colour. The colours and intensity of shades you choose to use in your Website design will be discerned differently by every individual who visits your Website. Inconsistencies in color patterns are affected by changes in ambient lighting levels. It’s like changes in your hair color depending on amount of lighting it was exposed. Some people even see blue colors in some objects like clothing wherein others do not perceive. These persons just happen to have more blue sensitive cones (photosensitive cells which convert light energy into nerve impulses) in their retina. They seem to view world with 'blue-tinted spectacles'. As a web desinger, you have to be aware that these conditions are reasons why your perception of your Web design may be different to other people and certainly are not same with everyone else's.
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