Empty/White/Negative space
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- honest
WTF is the psychological desire to fill up whitespace ?
As designers, are we missing some logic?
What are clients afraid of when they see some unused/unallocated/undefined area in a design?
- Luda0
This is one of my biggest gripes with clients.
- jetSkii0
what they say to me...
it looks empty
- pressplay0
horror vacui
- genfourth0
make it bigger
- Brownjohn0
open bar drink till you puke syndrome
- bjladams0
i guess it's like when you go to a nice restaurant and they bring out a big white plate with a tiny little dinner on it, dinner is good, but i cant help but feel that for the price i'm paying for it i should get more plate-estate... perhaps it's not the same, but i'm hungry.
- Miesfan0
sorry honest, but white space i guess isn't negative space...
or this
- Yeah, but my clients don't say — hey, there's some space there for a cool idea, let's use it! It's more like, can you extend the text to fill... or "You've probably tried this already, but could you- MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER?!?!?!honest
- Atkinson0
I spent ten years painting white paintings. No colour. Was ace.
- typist0
- wait. is he puttign another pair of glasses on?cannonball1978
- stanislav0
Empty space is not white space.
White space needs to be used effectively and communicated to clients who need to be educated.
Negative space, is very effective when used with a purpose.
If we are not getting our vision across it's because we are not doing our job.
- hellojeehae0
just need to get the right client :/
- ali0
We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
- tao quote
- Hombre_Lobo_20
i once worked somewhere where the management insisted on putting a cartoon bunny wherever my boss (senior designer) tastefully placed white space. No joke.
im surprised he didnt kill himself.
- detritus0
Is the God of the gap... Müller-Brockmann?
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- DoktorDavid0
effective use of white/"negative" space actually allows the viewer to relax and absorb what they are seeing/reading/contemplating - there's your pitch...
