Due 5/14 Visual Literacy

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“Are you visually literate? Are your kids?”
Read the blog posting by Leslie Madsen Brooks and follow the links listed.
http://www.blogher.com/are-you-visually-literate-are-your-kids

Color Matters
Visit the Color Matters website and read about color symbolism in different cultures. Browse the website to learn more about the significance of colors in our lives.
http://www.colormatters.com/symbolism.html

Basic Principles of Visual Design
There are four basic concepts of visual design, Contrast, Alignment, Repetition and Proximity (CARP). Understanding the principles and being able to name them will greatly enhance your visual literacy.
http://units.english.uiuc.edu/ppw/prosem/2003/carp/index.html

Supplementary Resources:

Color Resources

• A short compendium about color theory
• Complementary/Analogous color schemes
• Always test the colors
• Color Palette Generator - Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.
• Color database

Visual literacy – ideas and resources for young learners

• Visual literacy for K-8
• Resources for Kids related to color
• Visual Thinking Strategies
• Adobe Digital Kids Club: Lessons and activities to help teachers introduce digital photography and video into the classroom.