Now that you know what negative space is, let’s take a look at some world-class examples of design works that take exemplify notable talent in manipulating the foreground / background virtues of space, field, plane, object and typography. We begin with the spectacular design works of Hofstede Design in Prahran Victoria, Australia. Established in 1996, this organization specialises in identity, publication and environmental graphic design. They use the term Graphic Design confidently and deliberately.... 

Graphic designers deal with visual elements that must come together for form a composite message. However, those who hone their vision and skills to a fine level, understand that they are dealing with more than just shapes, colors, images and typography. Making a visual “window of approach” also deals with designing the space where nothing appears — the negative space. Good design utilizes the negative space as if it were a solid visual element in the design. Where this space occurs,... 

As you may have observed, as I have, the twitosphere* seems to be spawning a new generation of undesirables; just like all other areas of the online connected world has done for years. The problem with ‘Tweet-Jerks’ is it seems to be operating totally unnoticed by the tweeting population of the web. Evidence the fact that honest tweeters pick up the tweet-jerks and re-tweet it. This causes a chain of tweet-jerks, and indirectly implicates the innocent tweeter — while taking a possibly...