Design of designs

Representing a design graphically can make certain properties of a design obvious that otherwise would require tedious reasoning. This holds for symmetries, resolvability, and subdesign inclusion in appropriate cases. We describe how a graphical representation can be achieved in many cases and show several examples, in particular visualizations of the biplanes on up to 16 vertices and subdesigns of the large Witt design. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 20:1-22, 2011