Poster negative space

Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. Above: Pope Offers ‘Hand of Friendship’ To UK, 16 September 2010 Selman wants to elevate the American public's awareness of global events by presenting world news from a credible source in a

This book cover shows excellent figure ground/negative space. The contours formed by the position of the fox serve as the shape of a boy, I'm assuming "Peter." This empty space also creates a wonderful focal point for the book title to nestle into.

TNW’s Design & Dev channel present to you a list of 25 Beautifully designed modern posters.

In art, negative space is the background space around the main object of an image. In a two-tone image (eg. black and white), the object is usually

Personal project by Tang Yau Hoong. The art of negative space. An attempt to tell a story through illustration.

This film poster for Tyler Perry's "The Family that Preys" is a great example of a reversible figure/ground example. The figure (the profile of the face) first appears to be the focal poin; however, the white negative space around it also makes the prescense of a hand visible (and it's placed in the center of the compostion, then maing our mind see that as the main focal point.) It's hard to decifer if the figure or the ground have the most visual weight.

This coke ad shows a perfect example of gestalt defining qualities. The fork and knife are used to create an outline of what looks like a coke bottle. The red background in contrast to the white as well creates the coke logo, fork, and knife as well

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Tang Yau Hoong is a visual artist from Malaysia who cleverly uses negative space to create beautiful illustrations. via Creative Overflow Tang Yau Hoong’s website

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