A Roundup of 20 Articles & Tutorials About Using Negative Space
Andy Boyd Posted on 21. May, 2010 | Comment in!

Negative space, also referred to as ‘whitespace’ in design, can dramatically improve your designs and help them breathe more and have a much better flow. Today we have collected 20 articles and tutorials to get you started understanding negative space and effectively applying those principles in your designs.
Whether you’re a graphic designer or you design solely for the web, I am certain you will learn quite a lot from those articles. Some of them are geared more towards web-design but some also refer to drawing and painting or simply talk about how to effective use whitespace to craft more interesting designs. I hope you’ll enjoy this post!
1. Enhancing Your Art with Negative Space
2. An introduction to Negative Drawing with Mike Sibley
3. Negative Space – A Drawing Tutorial
4. Negative Space
5. Positively Negative: A Tutorial about Negative Space
6. Negative Space: nothing says a lot
7. Using Negative Space Effectively In Logos
8. Whitespace
9. Using White Space Effectively In Web Design
10. Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements
11. Whitespace: The Underutilized Design Element
12. Use of White in Web Design: Tips and Trends
13. Improving typography through space
14. How To Add White Space
15. On White Space in Graphic Design
16. CSS 101
17. Design Tip: The Value Of White Space
18. White Space and Simplicity: An Overview
19. Grid Design, A Classic Beauty For Whitespace Freaks
20. White Space in Your Web Design & Graphic Design
Conclusion
I hope you learned a thing or two from those articles. Of course feel free to chime in and share your discoveries with the rest of us. Have you read a great article about negative space/ whitespace recently? Please drop the link in the comment section!
Tom Walker is a writer and designer who works for Cartridge Save where he reviews products such as the HP 337 ink cartridge and manages their design blog.
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Very interesting, thank you for the useful information, I actually have some unused & negative spaces on my blog, I will have to deal with that!
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July 20, 2010
great collection..
it helps me much..