1 Brilliant

Andy Rutledge is such an opinionated and knowledgeable author it’s great to see him contributing to ALA - I love reading his articles.

posted at 06:50 am on April 24, 2007 by Jill Tovey

2 like my father said

I guess this article is most comprehensive and profound among many latest efforts to describe the subject of contrast and hierarchy. I funny thing is that while reading it I remembered my father (an old school russian constructivist designer) saying:

“a composition is a set of color spots linked (related) by contrast”

posted at 08:30 am on April 24, 2007 by Max Korinets

3 That was brilliant

This is especially true for those of us who did not come to web design from a formal design or art education.

As someone with no formal education in art and design well written articles like this really help to bridge the communication gap between myself and those people I work with who do have a formal education in design.

Good stuff! That was a real eye opener, thanks Andy!

posted at 11:17 am on April 24, 2007 by Robert Swan

4 Great article!

I do have a formal design education, and a lot of this I already know (although a reminder is never wrong). However, some of it was new to me and will be taken to heart.

I see many print and web designers today diving deep into code, standards and aesthetics without knowing the basics of communication. Hopefully this article sheds light on the subject to some of those people!

posted at 11:47 am on April 24, 2007 by Pontus Horn af Rantzien

5 Excellent

Echoing Robert Swan’s comment above, this is great reading for us non-designers. Thank you!

posted at 11:51 am on April 24, 2007 by Tamlyn Rhodes

6 Untitled

Who’s Virginia?

posted at 02:06 pm on April 24, 2007 by Chris Hester

7 CHEAPENED

Nice article.

Shame you had to taint your example mockup with the filthy brush of Web 2.0 styling, it was going so well up until then

posted at 02:11 pm on April 24, 2007 by James Greig

9 Untitled

Andy, I hit ‘submit’ by mistake there, so apologies for my message sounding so abrupt.

I’m going through a bit of a Web 2.0 anger phase right now but am currently undergoing therapy to ease the tensions caused by this.

Point taken :)

posted at 03:01 pm on April 24, 2007 by James Greig