Graphic Design: What's Going On In This Design?

My advertisement came from the March 2010 wired magazine. they are marketing the droid and saying how the droid has a way of reading messages that no other phone has. i think that it is a good advertisement because the droid is a very good phone and does have the way to see your messages.

Visual Design: Elements and Principles

6 design elements:
 1. line
2. color
3. form/shape
4. space
5. texture
6. value

5 design principals:
 1. Balance
2. Rhythm
3. Emphasis
4. Proportion/ scale
5. Omity

design challenge progress

these are some of the drawing ideas that i had for the candy dispensary. here is the image below, with a decision matrix.