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Design Principles and Elements
Quick questions on Gestalt principles of perception: O-Level Design Studies
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What is figure-ground?Show answer
The eye separates a scene into a figure (the focus) and the ground (the background). A clear relationship makes a design easy to read; a deliberately ambiguous one (where background space also forms a meaningful shape) creates clever effects, as in logos that hide a second image in the negative space.
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