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Grids are used everywhere. Grids are used in books, websites, modern cities, neighborhoods, and etc. Grids help the flow of thing and help designer scale and place elements of an item without relying on arbitrary or whimsical judgements. Grids make life smooth easier and help a lot of designer with making projects and with many more things. 

    A lot of softwares use grids, and they even encourage designer to use them. The softwares make it easy by giving designers margins, columns, and page templates. The softwares also make it where guidelines can be dragged and dropped, and easily deleted. A lot of famous designer's uses grids in theirs works. Grids was a great thing to be created. 

-Grids are a network of lines 

-A well-made grid get the designer to scale and placement of the items without relying on arbitrary or whimsical judgements 

-Grids are used in many modern cities, neighborhoods, and flow of traffic 

-Software interfaces encourages to use grids

-Grids for digital media are often built on the fly

Patterns 

Pattern come from a long history starting in the 1856 by Owen Jones. He created a his monumental "Grammar if Ornament", This book encouraged western designers to copy motifs from Asia and Africa. It also help unite an endless diversity of forms. In the 19th century designers began to learn how patterns were made. Thats how they found there were 3 basic forms to a patterns dots, stripes, and grids.   

    Every pattern follows a rule. Designer can define that rule with computer codes and it allows to make variations of patterns by changing the input. Some patterns are built around the basic form of a binary tree. The binary tree form has been related, rotated, inverted, connected, and overlapped to created a variety of patterns. Pattern can be flipped and switched around, just by changing a code and variety of patterns can be created. 

-The binary tree has been changed to generate a variety of patterns 

-Patterns are 3 basic forms: Isolated element, linear elements, and criss crossing

-Every Pattern follows a rule

- Pattern started in 1865

-Simple lozenge form is used to build design of varying complexity 

Point, Line, Plane 

Point, Line, and Plane was the building block of design.  For centuries people have used lines and dots to depict light, shadows, and volume. Software nowadays uses point, line, plane, shapes, and volume to describe an image. There are many several ways to experiment with two-dimensional design.

The point is used to mark a position in space. A pair of X, Y coordinates is a point. A series of points make a line. A line is what connects two points together. The line moves on a plane. A plane is a flat surface in height and width. All three of these have all ways of connecting. A line is made up of points and a plane is what a line sits on. 

-point is used to mark a position in space

-pair of X, Y coordinates is a point

-A plane is a flat surface in height and width

Rhythm and Balance 

Balance in design is when is everything is put together in a way where your eyes aren't getting stuck on just one item. Rhythm is used by designer as well when they are designing a book, magazine, and motion graphics. A lot of designer used rhythm that punctuates with change and variation, such as book design looks for variety of scales and tonal values across the page. 

Balance happens when the weight of one this is distributed evenly in space, such as arranging a rooms furniture. Balance need not be static, such as a tightrope walker get balance when traveling a precarious one in space, and shifting their weight. Designer shifts their weight in balance by size, texture, value, color, and shape to offset the weight. 

- Balance and Rhythm are key factors to a designer design 

-Rhythm is a strong, regular, repeated pattern.

-Balance is a fundamental human condition.

Modularity 

Modularity in graphic design is a certain kind of constraint. Designers are always trying to make decisions about size, color, placement, proportion, relationships, and material. When some of them items are decided ahead of time it helps the designer think more freely. 

Standard materials such as laser paper are used in regular ways. A regular sheet of office paper would be very plain. With Creative thinking though a regular piece of paper can be used effectively. A symbol can represent objects, functions, and processes. 

- a design problem is completed in set of limitations

-module is a fixed element used in a larger system of structure

-a 9x9 grid of pixels can be used in infinity number of fonts