POWER OF NEGATIVE SPACE
Pic.: Dilip V. P resently, I am working on a book. My son, who has done studies in Animation and designing, and who is working in Pune, is helping me in designing this book. Now, I have not done any formal studies in printing and designing. But, despite this handicap, I have been able to publish more than twenty inspirational books for The Dawn Club. I am blissfully ignorant about 95 percent of the vocabulary which a printer, publisher or book-designer would be using. But, that’s fun … Ignorance can be truly bliss! “I want more ‘white space’,” I was telling my son on phone, last night. “Yes, dad, you mean to say you want more ‘negative space’ on the page, right?” “Negative space?” I reacted in surprise, “Son, I want more ‘open space’ … The page should be less crowded, less clustered.” “Yes dad, we, professionals, call that ‘white’ or ‘open’ space as ‘negative’ space,” my son explained to me with loads of patience. “The space with images and write-up...