Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Changing any aspect of a form in space—its relative size, its shape, its orientation to horizontal
or vertical—or adding an additional form, creates differentiated spaces with new, more complex
relationships to each other.
Multiple forms situated around similar spatial intervals create static interaction. This composi-
tion—the arrangement of forms within space—seems restful, comfortable, and quiet, and exhibits
a kind of stasis despite the irregularity and rotation of the forms. Altering the intervals between
form elements, or between elements and format edges, creates a dynamic composition. The move-
ment of the eye is enhanced as these intervals exhibit more contrast with each other. Note the areas
where the negative spaces become compressed or exhibit a directional thrust.
DECISIVELY BROKEN SPACE
can be restrained yet still have a visual richness to it. The placement
of the type element and the dotted line create four horizontal channels of space and two vertical
channels of space.
