That's a Negative...
Posted by Administrator on September 16, 2009
Fast Company has a nice slide show of some great examples of negative space being used to convey a powerful message. When used correctly, negative space can become just as, if not more, important than the "positive" space. 
The big squeeze. Unpublished. 2007. This piece was for an article about squeezing oil out of Iraq. The oversized hand communicates the scale of force imposed on the country.
Chindia. Esquire. July 2008.
The enormous populations of China and India have elevated both countries from the butts of bad jokes to world powers.
Feeling the pinch. TimeOut. November 2006.
Home foreclosures are a common occurrence in this day and age. But the real story is about what happens to those people who lose their homes.
The realities of alcoholism. The Guardian. November 2005.
This bloodied face defined by an upturned booze bottle and a wine glass accompanied a journalist's autobiographical account of her struggle to overcome alcoholism in light of a UK proposal that would permit alcohol to be sold 24 hours a day.
