We see graphic design elements on everything from cereal boxes and websites to magazine ads and video games. Nearly all products you purchase and visual media you consume require some form of ...

Graphic designers must understand color theory, composition, and the emotions that design elements evoke. They use elements like symmetry and balance, flow, repetition, and pattern to display ...

This graphic, however, lays out your basic tools as a designer. The image, courtesy of Creative Market, demonstrates design elements like lines, texture, dominance, balance and more.

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