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Jan 27, 2025 33 min

Contrast, the most important design principle

from illo talk Hosted by Cory Kerr

These are videos I've created for my university courses on design and composition. This video is jam packed with university-level instruction on how to immediately take control of the hierarchy of your images. If you understand and apply what I cover here, you’ll be ahead of most beginning visual communicators and your illustration, photography, graphic design, typography, and video will drastically improve. So settle in as we cover contrast in Value, Hue, Saturation, Size, Shape, Weight, Theme, Pattern, Complexity, and Style. Have you read my comic? It’s good, you should. Click that shiny button up there. You know you want to. Some time codes to jump to different sections: * 0:00 introduction to Contrast * 1:16 Definition of Contrast (visually) * 1:58 Value Contrast * 5:38 Hue Contrast (contrast of color temperature) * 10:37 Saturation Contrast * 14:14 Size Contrast * 20:54 Shape Contrast * 23:08 Weight Contrast (variation in line weight) * 24:44 Thematic Contrast (juxtaposition of ideas) * 26:12 Pattern Contrast * 27:37 Complexity Contrast * 29:39 Style Contrast * 32:00 How to apply contrast in your images Join my email newsletter: corykerr.com/email Check out my site at corykerr.com Get full access to illo talk at corykerr.substack.com/subscribe

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