In our final discussion regarding the Principles of Design, let us turn to unity and variety first and to contrast second. When we talk about unity in art, we are talking about the same concept that ...

This fantastic short cartoon won’t teach you everything you need to be a designer, but it’s a great start. Although not anyone can be a designer, everyone who wants to can learn the elements of visual ...

Some rooms are meticulously put together yet somehow still look and feel flat, and they often suffer from the same problem: they haven't considered how critical contrast in interior design is.

Welcome to the final installment of Macworld’s Design Basics series. So far, we’ve covered the importance of proximity (placing related information closer together to form a visual framework), ...

This article was co-published with Source. While the tools and techniques to present large datasets in graphics and news apps may differ from project to project, the basic design principles stay ...