In the Lie of the Beholder

This week’s blog is about the article written by Mike Rundle. The article describes the process of web design and the several criteria that go into determining a well-made web page. He talked about how someone should use sharp contrast to highlight differences in the subject and alignment to keep everything visually connected. The point of this blog assignment was not as much to analyze the article that Rundle wrote and more about analyzing the subject behind it. His article goes to show that nearly everything in this universe is based on a system, whether simple or complex, of assigning aesthetic values to nearly everything. Aesthetics and symmetry are what govern relationships, mating, art and design, and even the world economy. To say that designing a web page would not require a certain amount of aesthetics is just silly. Web design is much like fashion that uses a combination of several aspects such as color, texture and lines to make people more aesthetically pleasing to each other. Anything a person buys or may use to buy something has to be appealing to the eye. Everything that you look at, you describes it as “looking just right”, or you say that it, “looks off”. Our eyes are how we perceive the world so they are obviously the sense we are going to but the most stock in. we are a shallow race and that fact is just as relevant when you apply it to our consumerism.