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The following presentation is concerned with positive & negative space and is designed as a support for the accompanying creative exercise. As a designer you should begin to look at visual elements in both the positive and the negative. If you can begin to train your eye and brain to be open to this technique it can prove to be a very useful tool in your design arsenal. This presentation highlights several examples that utilise a clever use of positive and negative space. Some are image based and some utilise type and image. Like most of your creative exercises this project is also about looking and making a visual connection(s). It is also about the composition, the attention to detail, the refining and the crafting. Year 1 - Image Manipulation 1 Semester + & - space

Positive & Negative space

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A short presentation on the use of positive & negative space in design. Designed as a support for a studio exercise

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The following presentation is concerned with positive & negative space and is designed as a support for the accompanying creative exercise.

As a designer you should begin to look at visual elements in both the positive and the negative. If you can begin to train your eye and brain to be open to this technique it can prove to be a very useful tool in your design arsenal.

This presentation highlights several examples that utilise a clever use of positive and negative space. Some are image based and some utilise type and image.

Like most of your creative exercises this project is also about looking and making a visual connection(s). It is also about the composition, the attention to detail, the refining and the crafting.

Year 1 - Image Manipulation

1Sem

este

r

+ & - space

Ornate vase or two people face to face

Male & female

The artist M.C.Escher - www.mcescher.com

Typography - Counters

Looking at counters

A well known mark that utilises +/- space

Can you see the white arrow?Once you do it is hard not to see anything else.

The Keys to the city - www.pentagram.com

A selection examples both type & image

A coke at the beach

The Bern Bear

Type & image combined in the counter

How a good idea can be adapted

Noma Bar - nomabar.com

Book title - Negative Spacehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Negative-Space-Noma-Bar/dp/0981780555

reference - www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/march/noma-bar-don-delillo-covers

Abram Games - c1950’s Noma Bar - 2000

Guerilla Gardening

Urban - Garden

The following example shows how a student has brought two elements together and then worked through an idea and refined the solution

First logo attemps

Guidance

You must initially look hard and make a visual connection.

Then it is important you start by drawing & tracing from good reference.

You can then refine your idea before you scan it in and begin to digitise.

Initially work in Black & white