When Repeating Yourself is a Good Thing

I was mildly chastising my husband the other night because he kept repeating himself over and over turning a 5 minute conversation into a marathon. But in some things I like repetition. In design, for example.

Flipping through my art journal today I picked out a few pages that nicely illustrate the principle of repetition in different ways. Coincidently, unlike many of my journal pages, these particular pages were ones that were created entirely on my computer utilizing fonts, my handwriting, clip art, my photographs, and some fills and patterns from my image editing software. Look at each composition (click on the full size image link below each one) and see if you can identify the use of repetition before reading my description of each page.

• Repetition: "Affirmation #416"
• Repetition: "5 things i do every day"
• Repetition: "Patterns in my life" (2 pages)