From the course: Learning Graphic Design: Things Every Designer Should Know

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Put white to work

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Put white to work

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Another essential is to make use of white space. Now, this is going to be similar to the focal point. White space is a requirement for all design. You can't really design without it. And to see how that works, just look at the stack of coins. It's like those apples that we saw earlier. They are just all over the place, a lot of coins, no real clear place to look. We're going to have a stronger presentation if we get rid of half the coins. Now, we have a coin half, a white half, and we have an interesting line that divides the two halves. In this case, we'll turn the white half green. We still call this white space. You can think if it as negative space, perhaps. Add our headline and logo and have a handsome design very simply. Another example, here we have a page with a picture of the Sage and its description. But along with that, we also have a gradient fill on the background, we have some shadows, we have some rectangles, we have a border around the gradient fill, a lot of extra…

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