Gestalt Psychology and Design

The prompt to one of my favorite assignments in my Illustrator Foundation class was "By working a shape into a composition, the qualities of the following: Focal Point, Symmetry, Similarity, Positive/Negative space, Symmetry, and Simplicity." The goal was to create symbols of the main Principles in Gestalt Theory to make it easier for people to understand them. Gestalt's main idea was that "The whole is grater than its parts."

In addition to all the symbols I made sepresenting 6 of all the principles, I also made a poster showcasing them all together. As you may have noticed, I played with the overall arrangement of the symbols to further highlight what Gestalt meant by "The whole is greater than its parts." At a glance, you are most likely to recognize the number 2 before all the individual symbols that make it up.

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