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Design Principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity

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Graphic Design, Lesson 4 of 8. Contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity and white space: pupils sort faults to the principle they break, see the same poster before and after, then fix the Greenway Park Clean-Up Day poster in Image Studio one principle at a time until a five-line checklist ticks.

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Lesson outline

  1. Count the Problems
  2. Do Now — Type, Colour, Audience
  3. Alignment
  4. Hinge Check — Where Does Contrast Come From?
  5. Four Principles, Before and After
  6. Sort It — Which Principle Is Broken?
  7. The Messy Poster — Five Faults
  8. Name It, Fix It
  9. What Good Looks Like — The Fixed Poster
  10. Make It — Fix the Messy Poster
  11. Re-Poll — Where Does Contrast Come From Now?
  12. Homework 2
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