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Repeating shapes to unify your design

Repeating shapes to unify your design

From the course: Design Aesthetics for the Web

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Repeating shapes to unify your design

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- [Presenter] The fourth of the eight elements of design is shape. Like the other elements, shape is an integral part of any design, and when used effectively, can set the tone of your web graphics. What's more, repeating shapes within a design can often help unify all of the elements in a single layout. Let's start our discussion about shape by defining exactly what it is. For our purposes, shape is defined as any flat area bound by line, or outline, value or color. Shapes are usually self-contained defined areas. For instance, they can be geometric shapes like squares, circles, triangles, polygons and stars, as well as curve or linear organic shapes that come from or resemble the natural world, like blobs and swirls, leaves, amoebas, even frogs. Shapes can be positive and negative, like a star or a star cutout. Positive is when the shape occupies space, like the star on the left. And negative space is the area around, or in between positive shapes as with the cutout of the star…

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