Visual Literacy Notes
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Brian Kennedy
Visual literacy needs to to be taught as a fundamental set of skills.
This set of skills is:
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For Teachers of Younger Students... use C.A.R.P.!
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6. SPACE – Space in art refers to the distance or area between, around, above, below, or within elements. Both positive and negative space are important factors to be considered in every design.
SOURCE: http://www.j6design.com.au/6-principles-of-design/
SOURCE: http://www.j6design.com.au/6-principles-of-design/
Incredible free resources I found through the Sakura Medal Book Trailer Contest
Free Colour Scheme Support
Fonts too have visual impact. Take the time to choose a font that matches your look and feel. Consideration of your audience is also important when selecting images, fonts and layout. A corporation presentation should be wildly different from a class in an elementary school in terms of layout not just content.
How C.R.A.P is your design?
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So she took the book and went outside. Her parents lived in a cul-de-sac of six homes. Four of those homes had Joshua trees in the front yard. She had lived in that house for thirteen years, and she had never seen a Joshua tree.
She took a walk around the block – at least 80 percent of the homes had Joshua trees in the front yards. And she had sworn she had never seen one before!
The moral of the story? Once Robin was conscious of the tree, once she could name it, she saw could see it everywhere. Which is exactly my point. Once you can name something, you’re conscious of it. You have power over it. You own it. You’re in control.
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She took a walk around the block – at least 80 percent of the homes had Joshua trees in the front yards. And she had sworn she had never seen one before!
The moral of the story? Once Robin was conscious of the tree, once she could name it, she saw could see it everywhere. Which is exactly my point. Once you can name something, you’re conscious of it. You have power over it. You own it. You’re in control.
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The Google Art Project
As introduced by Jim Sills

I am a firm believer that we should be making our own creations but we can take inspiration from the work of others.
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Rule of Thirds image: Flickr cc photo by AngryBeth