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Do you like to cook? If you do, you're in the right place. Using the Principles and Elements of Dsign is like using a recipe. The elements are your ingredients and the principles are your instructions. To use them effectively you don't just pick one of each and hope it works. You apply the principles to the elements... to create something cohesive. So what does that actually look like? Let's stay with the recipe for a moment. If your Elements are your ingredients~ Color, Shap

After starting the new school year we all were provided a school supplies list by the new first grade teacher. A box of tissue. Some pencils. Perhaps a bottle of glue. We always went off to the store to pickup our supplies on the list. My wise Mother always guiding us along, pen in hand, to check off the items as they were placed in our shopping cart. This is where my Mother's job shined. For she was a school teacher herself. And she made certain that every item on the list w

What's this Principles and Elements of Design thing? Well, to those of us in Design it's everything. Since Design is the strategic approach to convey messages or find solutions visually, the Principles and Elements of Design are our building blocks and guidelines. Whether someone is schooled in architecture, landscape or interior design, industrial or graphic design or attends art classes, we are all schooled in the Principles and Elements of Design. So let's start with an o

Back to my wise Mother who watched me pick out my first toy at the local store one day as I approached my 3rd birthday. We had gone on an outing and since my birthday was coming fast, she had told me I could select whichever toy I wanted with one requirement...I must be able to pick it up and carry it to the front register for payment. Seems like a simple choice and task for a three-year-old. And to a point it was. But alas I did not just select a coloring book, doll or even

Into the Weeds~ What a saying. Truth in words. And as you know the name of my blog. People ask...why this name? Well, because ending up in the Weeds was exactly how life has gone for me. A career unplanned, yet spanning 44 years plus... Into the Weeds. Because running a business will absolutely cause you to head into the ditch and end up there...more than you plan. Into the Weeds. Because life, in general, will send you there ~ no matter how many times you try to stay on the