Elements
Principles
Copyright
Illustrator
Graphic Design
100
The designer uses this heavily within the coffee bag design, using the element in its geometric form.
What is shape?
100
The designer used this principle by repeating the letter 's' in the above book cover design.
What is Repetition?
100
Violating this law could result in lost profits for a content-creator.
What is copyright?
100
This is the 'canvas' that a design is created on in Illustrator.
What is an Artboard?
100
This is a person who uses artistic avenues for creating marketing materials like package design, billboards, advertisements, tshirts, or logos, among many more.
What is a graphic designer?
200
The color harmony that is produced when a designer uses colors that are opposites on the color wheel.
What is complementary?
200
A series of elements that repeat in a predictable manner throughout all or part of a design.
What is pattern?
200
A content creator might file one of these, if their copyright has been violated.
What is a lawsuit?
(or cease and desist)
200
This tool and panel allows you add a fill that blends from one hue to another, by adjusting sliders.
What is a gradient?
200
This design technique uses the fewest elements and principles to convey a visual concept. It is often used in logos and icons, where too much visual clutter can be confusing.
What is minimalism?
300
This is the empty part of a design, sometimes called white space, where there are no graphical elements. Often, other shapes are implied through the use of this.
What is negative space?
300
The receipt in the illustration demonstrates this principle by creating a path for the viewer's eye to follow throughout the design.
What is Movement?
300
This part of copyright law allows for some uses of copyrighted material, if it follows specific parameters.
What is fair use?
300
This is adjusted on shapes and photos to make them see-through so that elements can be layered on top of each other while overlapping.
What is transparency or opacity?
300
A vector graphics program that allows a person to create designs and scale them infinitely larger.
What is Adobe Illustrator?
400
Purple, orange, and green are an example of this color harmony.
What is triadic?
400
The cohesion of all parts of a design flowing together, often with a finished and polished look.
What is unity/harmony?
400
This is a more modern set of licensing that allows a content creator to determine how their work can be used and shared by others.
What is Creative Commons?
400
This color mode is used in digital design and for use on a screen. When all of the hues are fully activated, they produce white.
What is RGB?
400
This design concept allows a designer to determine the order in which elements and information is viewed. A designer would use the design principles to employ this concept.
What is hierarchy?
500
Overlapping elements, or arranging items in perspective, are examples of how to show this design element.
What is space?
500
This type of balance arranges elements in a way that is close to an exact reflection, but not quite a perfect reflection.
What is Approximate Symmetry?
500
The category of material that no longer is, or never was, protected by copyright law.
What is public domain?
500
This tool is used to curve anchor points, or modify the transition of a straight line to a curve.
What is the Anchor Point Tool?
500
A design technique that uses only text to create an illustration.
What is a calligram?