Design

Balancing Negative and Positive Space in Design

Grab attention while creating calm!

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Upskilling
Published in
4 min readJan 13, 2022

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designs by Shigeo Fukuda

Negative space is the background of a design or work of art, and positive space is the foreground (the front). Negative space gives design definition, and it’s the most neglected in art and design.

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Kristi Dawn Riggs
Upskilling

Advisor, University Faculty Adjunct, M.A. Georgetown University.