Simple lines and shapes for your logo design

Written 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.

Integraterepparttar 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 withrepparttar 132213 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 usingrepparttar 132214 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 withrepparttar 132215 means to attract your target audience. Here are some variations you can do to make your lines more interesting and exciting:

- varyrepparttar 132216 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 understandingrepparttar 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 ensurerepparttar 132211 user-friendliness of a certain site and must strive to reachrepparttar 132212 widest range of users possible.

So what’s this about psychology? It simply implies that by understandingrepparttar 132213 capabilities ofrepparttar 132214 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. Evenrepparttar 132215 size of elements will affect an individual user's perception of colour. The colours andrepparttar 132216 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 inrepparttar 132217 ambient lighting levels. It’s like changes in your hair color depending onrepparttar 132218 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 viewrepparttar 132219 world with 'blue-tinted spectacles'. As a web desinger, you have to be aware that these conditions arerepparttar 132220 reasons why your perception of your Web design may be different to other people and certainly are notrepparttar 132221 same with everyone else's.

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