The much anticipated follow up to my 4 part series on CRAP design (CRAP is Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity). I didn’t plan on taking this long to have this article up but as it happened work got in the way of things. But on to the good stuff.. Alignment is impossibly important in design because it is the basis for everything that is design. Without alignment you have elements that are seemingly unrelated and randomly placed. This easily applies to web, print and other media just as the other CRAP principles do. Alignment is used to create order in your design. (more…)

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This is part two in the four part series about CRAP web design, which of course stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. This article is of course about repetition and the uses it has in any type of design. It allows the user to understand that the design is similar to other aspects of the design. For instance, like a web site having the same navigational structure throughout the entire web site is a kind of repetition that can make the user more comfortable with the web site. (more…)

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Typically when people call something crap it isn’t a good thing, but in the design world if your design is C.R.A.P then you are doing something right. As some of you may know and some of you may have heard before, CRAP stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity. These are all design characteristics that can enable you to make a design that is worth being seen. Without these traits for a design you just have stuff on a document. In this four part series I will go in to detail about how to make your designs look like CRAP. I will go ahead and begin where every good thing starts, the beginning (cheesy!). (more…)

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Most people can grasp the basics of getting the right colors in the right places and ensuring that you are following simple principles when you are designing an item for print or designing a web site. For those of you that don’t consciously know why you should be using what color where or are curious about better understanding the fundamentals and psychological aspect of color. This article is made for you and will help you better make that next logo, site design or print design. (more…)

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