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

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

Let's move into the present for a brief minute before we return to the Red Dump Truck and the Crayon Box. This year marks my Diamond Year....or so I am told. As I understand it when your birth year lines up with your age it is a special year. So here we are... a celebration is in order. In honor of such an auspicious year, Imagine Fiber Arts is designing a special colorway. Something to celebrate this milestone. And so the process goes. What do we know so far...We know it is