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Form Design

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Designing print forms is a completely new territory for me, and many of the conventions and recommendations diverge from Web design. For example, one of the major takeaways from the Ohio Forms Management guide [PDF] was their strong recommendation to use ULC or box-style forms. Web forms, while they do use boxes, don’t flow that way by [...]

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Document Design Form and Ground

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Form and Ground are two concepts in design that I had never encountered before this class. Of course, we all have a natural inclination to identify the subject and the background of an image, but these concepts distill the idea even further. In fact, the background of a photograph may end up becoming the form [...]

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