Came across a good article by Luke Wrobleski that has a lot of the main concepts of good visual organization condensed into the one brief article. There is an interesting section that explains how we see visual relationships. The principles of gestalt are something I studied during VIS18s. (see image)
'Whenever we attempt to make sense of information visually, we first observe similarities and differences in what we are seeing. These relationships allow us to not only distinguish objects but to give them meaning. For example, a difference in color implies two distinct objects (or different parts of the same object), a difference in scale suggests one object is further from us than the other, a difference in texture (one is more blurry) enforces this idea, and so on. Once we have an understanding of the relationships between elements, we can piece together the whole story and understand what we are seeing.' (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visible_narratives
_understanding_visual_organization)
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