These links will help illustrate the elements and principles of design. Lesson plans can be developed around each of the linked web pages.
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Design Elements |
Each Web page shows an example of one element or principle with explanatory text. The elements and principles can help organize a composition and help determine what doesn't fit. An underlying plan can hold things together. |
Design Principles |
These definitions were developed during the era of the Bauhaus, in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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Artists from ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance, to modern architects and makers of modern cars use these elements and principles to lay out their ideas. |
One of the enduring principles is proportion. Proportion can determine the size of a building or a car and the disposition of its elements. |