NEGATIVE SPACE ART SERIES

What shapes do they notice? Which shapes seems to pop out or recede in space? Why?Ĭ. Students can experiment with positive and negative space by making shapes with their hands, shadow silhouettes on a wall, or by sketching the objects in their classroom. Ask your students to view and discuss Herrera’s painting Iberic, 1949 and Green and Orange, 1958. Explore how Carmen Herrera has used shapes and color to create positive and negative space in her paintings. Ask them to look at the objects around them in their classroom, such as a desk or chair, and identify the positive and negative spaces.ī. For example, objects in their classroom, on company logos, Tshirts, and other clothing, in advertising, food labels, and children’s books. Talk about where students might have noticed positive and negative space in their own lives. Negative space is the background or the area that surrounds the subject of the work.Ī. Explore and discuss positive and negative space with your students.

Read affiliate disclosure here.Positive space refers to the subject or areas of interest in an artwork, such as a person's face or figure in a portrait, the objects in a still life painting, or the trees in a landscape painting.

NEGATIVE SPACE ART SERIES

Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. It got a lot of traction on Instagram when I posted last year. This, much like the puzzle logo, was also discovered somewhat by mistake when designing something for a client. Quite a clever depiction of an isometric USB plug comprised of the USB letters, but with the B being the negative space. UpĪ very simple “up” with an arrow forming a letter U and the P appearing within the negative space. The alternating between positive and negative space in the letters is just brilliant. It looks like the 1 is intertwined with the S. I was experimenting with the possibility of using puzzle pieces to make the name, then realized I could easily spell “puzzle” with them. I actually came up with this design somewhat by mistake when I was creating a logo for a client’s escape room. Here’s some negative space typography of my own - the letters in “puzzle” comprised of puzzle pieces, some of which utilize the negative space. This one plays with perspective a bit to depict an open door within a letter E. It takes very careful execution to get a design concept like this right with line thickness and whatnot. I particularly like how the E in this one matches the style of the other letters, as if they’re all cut from the same font. I really like the consistency in the thickness of the entire S. This one is both clever and executed quite well. Similar to the shift logo, this one uses the negative space between two lightning bolts to form the letter K.

The I almost slips past you, but the T within the negative space of the O really makes it pop. Simple and subtle, but not so much that it could be easily overlooked. A little side profile of a dog cut into the lower portion of a letter G.

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