Jason Santa Maria provides some great design les­sons on his journal. In the second instal­ment of his ‘Under the loupe’ series, he talks about mak­ing hier­archy clear and cre­at­ing focal points in your lay­out. For someone who hasn’t really had any formal design edu­ca­tion like me, it’s great to know why things work (or don’t work) visually.

All I had to com­ment was:

Thanks — good stuff!

update: Wow, that Big-ass-first-letter in the block quote looks even sil­lier with just the one line of text!