List every design element you can think of, super thread.

[ThomasB]

To start with, lets get the easy ones out of the way. Thread rule is only one post per user. Im tom BTW, hi.

Contrast

[urstwile]

Good luck with that thread rule. :p

Hierarchy.

[doubting_thomas]

Juxtaposition of opposed elemental characteristics.

I still have scars from professors beating this into my head.

[EC]

color

[distruktor]

white space

[G-Man79]

texture

[captain spanky]

is negative space the same as white space (i mean, it doesn't always have to be white does it? ;))

anyway, my design element would be... penguins. everyone's gotta have a penguin.

[Broacher]

Caffeine.

[nyc_skater]

Hooters

[rainbow2bryte]

focal point

[obesebee]

A 0.5pt white line

[Klavzz]

Balance - Asymmetrical or Symmetrical

[twogun]

alignment or justification of page elements

[balou]

More Cowbell

[Eraser Nubbin]

Macaroni, glitter and pizazz.

[Broacher]

Pancakes and nachos.

[seamas]

Movement

[D-Frag]

starbursts and swooshes!!

[morea]

comedy.

[danedawg99]

rhythm

[reuber1]

Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. I'm dead ****ing serious. Look at me. This is my serious face.
:mad:
This says that I mean business. I don't mess around. I jump around. Jump-Jump.

[morea]

ooh! Puns!


d'oh. disregard. I forgot the rules.

[reuber1]

You posted TWICE!!! :mad:


Wait...so did I!!! :eek:


http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/02/250px-Nuclear_fireball.jpg

[morea]

you said the word! You said it again! Now I said it! ;)

[ThomasB]

You can post twice, just diffrent things. If you are naughty, the design fairy will take away some of your design skills.

Negitive space is it's own concept.

You get one point per decent post. Most of you are on one point.

Scale.

[erichmond]

Uhm! This is an interesting idea, anything to do with generating traffic to your website ThomasB? I would be interested in that discussion.... oh yes and lets not forget 'Letter space'

[ThomasB]

Nah it is just so I can get to know everyoneone and emerse my self in the community.

Prespective

[erichmond]

oh ok, well for what it worth then 'French Curves' :p

[CamarotaDesign]

Unity!

[erichmond]

balance

[urstwile]

I am blatantly posting twice and saying: Cheese.

[tZ]

This is weird.

Is this thread suppose to help someone?

casue its confussing me,lol.

jack daniels

j/k

how about… hierarchy

[CamarotaDesign]

bandolero triple sec!

[Ghastly]

lens flare ;)

[snipe]

The Z reading pattern

[Broacher]

More design elements:

- carbon (graphite)
- silicon (computer)
- hydrogen (bomb on stupid, visually illiterate, client's corporate headquarters)
- oxygen (creative control)
- boron (related to hardon, but restricted to corporate logo design)
- sodium (element used in creative process, as in... "So, dee... um... um. Yeah!")
- Argon (the element that often tempts weak designers into buying pirated software)
- Titanium (a base element which male designers use for inspiration through mispronunciation)
- Iron (used in creative process to inject slight cynicism about an objective, as in "Look at the irony boss.")
- Germanium (used to inject bauhausium stylings to a layout)
- Nickel (element commonly known as 'profit' for many freelancers)
- Zinc (element often confused with rarer element: Zwim)
- Arsenic (motivational element when fantasizing about impossible deadlines and client's coffee supply)
- Krypton (used to cut super-ego designers down to size)
- Rubidium (used by designer's peers to point out technical knowledge gap: also known as 'rubitinagin')
- Zirconium (a design element in the form of evil, tentacled alien robots)
- Molybdenum (design element found only in certain femal designer's pants)
- Indium (applied to schedules to accelerate the design process)
- Tin (found in covalent pairs to create strange graphic novels featuring arian teenage boy, little white dog, and a naval officer with Tourette's syndrome)
- Xenon (fantasy inducing element for male designer's with super heroine fetish)
- Cesium (element used to cancel dead end jobs)
- Barium (element used to process designer's expense claims to tax auditor)
- Samarium (element exchanged when a successful designer helps out a less fortunate one. "Here, try this." "Mmm... that's good samarium!")


Okay, just got some backtowurkium...

[reuber1]

More design elements:

- carbon (graphite)
- silicon (computer)
- hydrogen (bomb on stupid, visually illiterate, client's corporate headquarters)
- oxygen (creative control)
- boron (related to hardon, but restricted to corporate logo design)
- sodium (element used in creative process, as in... "So, dee... um... um. Yeah!")
- Argon (the element that often tempts weak designers into buying pirated software)
- Titanium (a base element which male designers use for inspiration through mispronunciation)
- Iron (used in creative process to inject slight cynicism about an objective, as in "Look at the irony boss.")
- Germanium (used to inject bauhausium stylings to a layout)
- Nickel (element commonly known as 'profit' for many freelancers)
- Zinc (element often confused with rarer element: Zwim)
- Arsenic (motivational element when fantasizing about impossible deadlines and client's coffee supply)
- Krypton (used to cut super-ego designers down to size)
- Rubidium (used by designer's peers to point out technical knowledge gap: also known as 'rubitinagin')
- Zirconium (a design element in the form of evil, tentacled alien robots)
- Molybdenum (design element found only in certain femal designer's pants)
- Indium (applied to schedules to accelerate the design process)
- Tin (found in covalent pairs to create strange graphic novels featuring arian teenage boy, little white dog, and a naval officer with Tourette's syndrome)
- Xenon (fantasy inducing element for male designer's with super heroine fetish)
- Cesium (element used to cancel dead end jobs)
- Barium (element used to process designer's expense claims to tax auditor)
- Samarium (element exchanged when a successful designer helps out a less fortunate one. "Here, try this." "Mmm... that's good samarium!")


Okay, just got some backtowurkium...Yup.

[ThomasB]

balance
someone said that already, you lose a point!

Keep it up, rember, only one element per post.

repetition (http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=repetition&spell=1)

[ThomasB]

lens flare ;)

thats a photshop filter, not a design element. A design elemnt is line, or typeface (perhaps typeface is the same as lens flare) aahah anyone, no point, keep trying

[ThomasB]

Me 2
urstwile1
doubt tom 1
ec 1
distructor 1
gman 1
cap spanky 1
rainbow 1
klavzz 1
two gun 1
eraser .5
seanes 1
rebert .25
camarota 1
erichmond 1
tz 0
ghastly -1
broache 5


stay tuned for the next comp, this one is still going, i am sure we can figure some more out, it is not easy though. Please red the thread beofre posting, if you post someone else's you will be punished with a -!!!!!!!!

[tZ]

hmm… render clouds

[distruktor]

kerning

[urstwile]

Waitaminnit, I had two, first was hierarchy, second was cheese! :p Now I'm up to three.

To which I will submit bevel and emboss with a drop shadow. :D

[distruktor]

dynamism

[distruktor]

i think ive got three now...

[tZ]

closure

[tZ]

isomorphic correspondance

[tZ]

equilibrium

[tZ]

gestalt

[tZ]

proportion

[tZ]

color (body copy) not hue

[tZ]

rule of thirds

[tZ]

root rectangles

[tZ]

atmospheric perspective (depth)

[tZ]

simaltaneous contrast

[tZ]

typography

[tZ]

structure (type face)

[tZ]

form (case and slant)

[tZ]

at this rate i'll be at 1000 in no time,lol

[morea]

Me 2
urstwile1
doubt tom 1
ec 1
distructor 1
gman 1
cap spanky 1
rainbow 1
klavzz 1
two gun 1
eraser .5
seanes 1
rebert .25
camarota 1
erichmond 1
tz 0
ghastly -1
broache 5


you forgot: morea 2 ;)


if you post someone else's you will be punished with a -!!!!!!!!

can we be punished with something else if we prefer? :D

[reuber1]

Who the hell is rebert?

[Broacher]

>>Thread rule is only one post per user.<<

Thread rule two is everyone ignores thread rules.

[tZ]

we're all about breaking the rules for a just cause,lol- more info!hah

[Samakimoto Graphics]

how about… hierarchy

:p someone said that already- you lose a point too.

Dominance

[Broacher]

>>someone said that already<<

Ditto!

[tZ]

yeah… I never recived a point.

I think this is fixed…

[Ghastly]

thats a photshop filter, not a design element. A design elemnt is line, or typeface (perhaps typeface is the same as lens flare) aahah anyone, no point, keep trying

Lensflare not a design element??? :confused: 33% of all *graphic designers* will be mortified by this revelation but if that is so then it is so :cool:, lemme try again...chrome filter

[Ghastly]

and one more since I'm at zero points right now...twirl filter (oh baby I'm rockin now...oh yes!)

[CamarotaDesign]

pucker and bloat!

[morea]

how about tacos? That's a GDF element, for sure!

[Jriddim]

Symmetry!!!!

[reuber1]

Copyright infringement!!!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Did anyone say texture and pattern yet? I scanned through and didn't think I saw it :p

[morea]

did anybody mention coffee? Coffee is an absolute must.

[reuber1]

Me + coffee = gag
Me x coffee = barf
Me - coffee = relieved
Me/coffee = I have no idea.

[Red Kittie Kat]

You are on a roll today morea :D

[morea]

a dinner roll, hopefully. I bet I would make a tasty sammich.

reuber, this is a DESIGN board, math has no place here. :D

[morea]

I hereby claim this thread in the name of Upstate New York!

everybody else has to buy us drinks to celebrate our victory.

[reuber1]

Math is EVERYWHERE.
Math is MANLY.

:P

[morea]

make with the drinks, math boy.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I hereby claim this thread in the name of Upstate New York!

everybody else has to buy us drinks to celebrate our victory.


Here Here!!! http://redkittiekat.com/p9/24.gif

[morea]

ooh, that's a good one!

[reuber1]

I ain't hotlinking anything. Not after last time. ;)

[morea]

ok, break time:

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/6600/outtolunch3lx.gif

[reuber1]

I don't know what image posted when I hotlinked before, but it can't be as bad as that ^^^.

[morea]

you love it. :D

[reuber1]

Comix sanz is th3 rulz, it pwns @ll oth3r fontz. :P

[morea]

ow, my brain. LMAO!

[reuber1]

Wait, I fixed it. No text is awesome until it is underlined, hyperlinks be damned.

[CamarotaDesign]

This is 100% true.

Recent client email I got:

"I dont like that logo for ****** company. Its not looking good and doesnt do justice to the rest of your design. How about we type it out in in Comic Sans MS and Arial Bold."

[Broacher]

If I ever return to freelance, I plan to call myself, "Comic Sans Studios". Tagline: "to boldly go where no Arial has gone before".

[Klavzz]

ha ha thats funny!

[ThomasB]

Hi guys, Yeh the orginal thread rule was one post per user, but then it morphed, like agood digital ad. In my opnion, which is everything in this thread, cause I started it, photoshop filters and effects are not design elements. I can see that they could be, but they are not really tyeing with the whole theory concept.

[ThomasB]

This is 100% true.

Recent client email I got:

"I dont like that logo for ****** company. Its not looking good and doesnt do justice to the rest of your design. How about we type it out in in Comic Sans MS and Arial Bold."

thats $%#@ed up comic and arial suck so hard.

Also, sometimes I cant make new posts, or reply, any idea what is up?

[dariobt]

i know someone posted this already but i "gotta have more cowbell!"
"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!" :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

hehe :D

[EC]

This is a site I've been admiring lately. Yes, that's Comic Sans. Yes, I still really like it. http://etniesgirl.com/

[Crimson]

This is a site I've been admiring lately. Yes, that's Comic Sans. Yes, I still really like it. http://etniesgirl.com/


That don't look like no comics sans I ever heard of. That site doesn't use the script in the cheesiest way possible so it doesn't count

[cj2a]

money.

[cj2a]

oops! sorry, wrong thread.

[ThomasB]

punish!!!

[urstwile]

I really can't stress cheese enough, apparently. :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeese............... I love cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese :D



Well come to think of it there isn't much in the line of food I don't like :D


except liver and spinach :D

[SnowAngel]

Cheese and Chocolate. Nothing finer. :D I'm with you, Kit, if it's food, I'll take it.

Particularly cheese and chocolate.

[SnowAngel]

oh, ya.

flow.

[ThomasB]

Okay

Me, 2
Urstwile -2
doubt thomas 1
EC1
distrucktor 3
gman 1
cap spanky 1
rainbow 1
klav22 1
two gun 1
eraser.5
seames 1
dunaug 1
reburt .25
carmota -1
erichmond 0
tzo 12 (althou I did not understand some)
ghastly -1
Broache 5
Samkimoto -1
graphics
ghastly -3
jriddim -1

Winner is tzo. Well done, you get heaps NY city street cred.

[urstwile]

What did you use to determine the scores? I know I said one and then just goofed after that, but I am curious.

[Crimson]

Me

[DesignerScott]

How come I'm not up there ?

[Samakimoto Graphics]

3 tacos and a keg of Tusker (Kenyan beer) for TZ coming right up!

[reuber1]

Again, who the hell is rebert [sic]?

[Samakimoto Graphics]

Well, "reburt", I could also ask who the hell is Sam^kimoto

[Ghastly]

I got entered twice :cool: ... -1 and -3 So I reckon we multiply em both so that my score is 3...woohoo I came joint third :D (go-go lensflare rangers)

[printmonger]

harmony

[Broacher]

B-flat. Hmmm.....

Down by the old..... Mill.... Stream.
Where I first... met.... you....

C'mon, I need a tenor, a bass, a bari.

With your eyes... so blue....

C'mon! Where are you guys?

[idaho]

Cats! All designs must have cat elements. Doesn't Photoshop have a tabby and a calico filter?


You can never have enough pussy in your designs!

[tZ]

I couldn't resist…

You can never have enough pussy in your designs

[EC]

This is 100% true.

Recent client email I got:

"I dont like that logo for ****** company. Its not looking good and doesnt do justice to the rest of your design. How about we type it out in in Comic Sans MS and Arial Bold."

This just brightened my day. I just submitted the first round of a logo project to a client over the weekend, one of which I feel was really strong and on target and felt confident he'd be delighted.

He hated all of them, and sent me an email full of logos he wants me to emulate. All with beveled swoops, arrows, globes and stretched fonts.

Neat.

[max_nhk]

Alternate Perspective

[Ghastly]

any 2 or more of: bevel, swoosh, comic sans, lens flare, twirl, & globe = solution to all design briefs :cool:

Examples:

Say your company manufactures computer hardware...You want to communicate hi-tech, sophistication, and value. You've been in business for 20 years and so really want to emphasise the integrity and reliability of your products...so what do you choose? the discerning designer would choose Globe and swoosh, problem solved :cool:

what about revitalising a company that wants to shake off it's reputation for being old and stuck in it's ways, wants to grab the younger audience, be more trendy if you like. What do you do? The answer is simple...lens flare, bevel and twirled elipse

Ah but what if you are designing for a distribution company that ships food produce all over the world, clearly globe is the wrong solution here, lens flare wouldn't help neither...a very tricky problem, fraught with danger. One wrong turn could spell disaster and assure failure for the company... but no problem! you choose comic sans and bevel, top job! :cool:

The list of examples can never end...in fact, you tell me the problem and I give the solution :cool:

[peder]

I didn't read it all, so I don't know if anyone else said it: reading direction.

[superlove]

Consistency of scale.
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