Stephen Kroninger

What kind of art/design does he produce?
Modern Art
In what publications/media studios has his work been featured?


PRINT CLIENTS INCLUDEThe Atlantic Monthly
Austin-American-Statesman
Bantam/Doubleday/Dell
Roger Black
Bloomberg Wealth Manager
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe Magazine
Business Week
The Chicago Tribune
Crain's
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Delacorte Press
Def Jam Recordings
DraftWorldwide
Esquire
Elle
Emerge
Entertainment Weekly
ESPN Magazine
ESPN The Life
Fast Company
Forbes
Fortune
Foote,Cone and Belding Direct
Generator Design
George
GQ
Harper's
Kaiser Family Foundation
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Knopf
Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon and Schuster
Los Angeles Magazine
The Los Angeles Times
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Mademoiselle
Men's Health
Modern Maturity
Money
Don Morris Design
Mother Jones
My Generation
The Nation
Newsweek
New York Magazine
The New York Observer
The New York Times
The New York Times Magazine
The New Yorker
Nikkei Money
The Oregonian
Parents
Pentagram Design, Inc.
Premiere
Pro (Street and Smith's)
The Progressive
Reader's Digest
Red Herring
Rock the Vote
Rolling Stone
Scholastic
The School of Visual Arts
Smart Money
Spin
Sports Illustrated
Time
Times Books
United States Postal Service
Us magazine
Vibe
Viking/Penguin books
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
The Washington Post Magazine
Wired
Wirtschafts Woche

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Funny Garbage
HBO Downtown
Lifesavers
Microsoft
MTV Networks
Nickelodeon
Nick at Night
PBS
Public Enemy
Alan and Susan Raymond
The Red Hot Organization
The Chris Rock Show
Showtime
Sony Music
TV Land
U2 Zooropa Tour
Voyager
The Whitney Museum of American Art

Was this piece published? Where? This piece was published; in Rolling Stone magazine

What principles of design were utilized within the piece? How?
I think most of them were used. Balance was definitely used and so was emphasis.
What elements of design were utilized?
Balance. Emphasis. Unity. Rhythm. 

Review Week 12

How can you, as the designer, use principles of design to help compose a page?
You can use the principles of design to get the message to your viewers or target audience. You use balance to make sure you have visual stability in your piece. Proportion refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. You can also use rhythm, emphasis, and unity to capture any audiences attention.


What are the principles of design (define each in your own words)?

The principles are:

Balance- Balance help bring visual stability to the piece. 

Proportion- Proportion refers to the size and scale of the range of design elements.

Rhythm- Rhythm is the movement and motion in the space.

Emphasis- Emphasis points out the the focus or the interruption in the piece.

Unity- The summarizes all the other elements together to make them work with eachother. 

Podcast #3 Principles of Design

Define principles of design?
Concepts used to arrange the structural elements of a composition.
What do the principles of design affect?
affects the expressive content, the message, or the work.
What is the principle of repetition?
repeating some aspect or element of the design throughout the entire document
Describe ways that the principle of repetition helps the composition/audience? Bold font, thick lining, certain bullet, color, design element, particular format, and spatial relationship.


What are ways that you can incorporate repetition into your designs? Bold font, thick lining, certain bullet, color, design element, particular format, and spatial relationship.
What should you avoid when working with repetition? Repeting to much that it gets annoying or overwhelming.


What is the principle of proportion/scale? The realative size and scale of various elements in a design.


What is the most universal standard of measure when judging size? The Human Body
How can the principle of proportion/scale be used as an attention getter? They are usually there to be unexpected or unusual.
What is the principle of balance? The distribution of heavy and light elements on the page.
Which kinds of elements/shapes visually weigh heavier/greater? Irregular shapes bear greater weight than regular shapes.


What is another name for symmetrical balance? Formal balance


Define symmetrical balance? This occurs when the weight of a compositon is evenly distributed around a central, vertical, or horizontal axis.
What is another name for asymmetrical balance? Informal Balance
Define asymmetrical balance? Occurs when the weight of a composition is not evenly distributed around the axis.


What is the principle of emphasis? Stressing a particular area of focus rather than the maze of details of equal importance.


What happens to a design that has no focus? It can make the page jumbled and have no meaning.


What is a focal point and how is it created? Focal point is the area where the eye goes to first.


How many components of a composition can be a focal point? One
What ways can emphasis be created in a design? It may be the largest, brightest, darkest, or most complex.
What is the principle of unity? Wholenesscomposition.


What three ways can unity be obtained?
1. Put objects close to one another.


2. Make things similar (similar textures, colors, or shapes)




3. Direct vision of a line.


What is the principle of variety?


What ways can a designer add variety to a design?


Why is it important to find the right balance between unity and variety?


What is figure?


What is another name for figure?


What is ground?


What is another name for ground?


When a composition is abstract (has no recognizable subject) what will the figure depend on? What does that mean?


Why must a designer consider the composition as a whole?


What is the principle of rhythm?


How is rhythm achieved?


What three ways can rhythm occur in a design?
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How does rhythm help a composition/design?


What is the principle of contrast?


How can contrast help a design?


What is wrong with having too much or too little contrast in a design?


What is the key to working with contrast?


What are some common ways of creating contrast?