Team Awesome Ornamentation

Ornamentation is adding things to something to decorate it or to make it more elaborate. The article describes how euro paper currency looks better than the American dollar because even though the American dollar shows more patriotism, the euro paper currency is more appealing to look at.



Ornamentation in general make things more appealing to look at. This can be used not only just for making things look good but can also be used to sell things. Most products are guilty of using ornamentation to sell their products.





 

Mountain Dew for example uses ornamentation by using cool graphics on their bottle and also changing up the color of their drink to a bright green that no other soda product has. By doing this it makes their product look more appealing.




The picture above is a book cover that uses ornamentation to pull you and try to get you to want to read it by using an eye catching picture and bright colors.