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This cutting edge DVD set provides valuable insight into the minds and work of leading young designers. Each DVD includes two key segments – documentary-style interviews following successful design projects from concept through execution and visually-rich tutorials allowing user the opportunity to put the same tools and concepts to work, creating exemplary pieces for their design portfolio…. More >>
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“A surprising and useful book full of information and indispensable to anyone involved in communicating ideas through typographic means”.–Milton Glaser, president, Milton Glaser, Inc”. TYPE & LAYOUT should be required reading before students are allowed to touch a computer”.–Dennis G. Martin, Ph.D., Professor of Communications, Brigham Young University…. More >>
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Before we discuss what are some of the design principles that you can apply to on-line content, we should define what we mean by “Design”. This is one of those words that are ever-present in every industry that produces something, but it often means something different to every person invoking its meaning.
For this discussion, we are making the argument that to design something is to plan its inception, production and use, and that the application of consistent principles can improve the utility of that thing. In the case of on-line educational content, this means a plan of the purpose, presentation and evaluation of that content using accepted instructional design principles. Yet, we are working in a format that requires the consideration of other applications of design ideas from other fields. The use of media types such as typography, images, and audio are directly constrained by the on-line distribution method in both presentation and technical considerations.
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