Feb. 12 Application Log

This week we learned about some principles of design. It is always interesting to have creative things like this spelled out for me, and presented almost formulaically. I have noticed these principles outside of class but the event that stood out the most was in my advertising class when my professor said, “I hate orphans!” When a lone word has its own line at the end of a paragraph it is called an orphan. He exclaimed this before we had this lesson so I was confused at first. These principles of design truly do apply across the different communications disciplines. It was actually humorous how adamantly opposed he was to such an innocent design flaw. It was a good lesson to not make the same mistake as that student.