Conscious of Gestalt

As a designer why is it important to be conscious of the Gestalt principles in design?

The gestalt principles would bring any designer a serious insight into forms, one not only ‘sees’ we start ‘looking’.  The acknowledgment of a ‘unified whole’ makes us end up seeing the space surrounding an object as an element just as relevant as the objects themselves. By also understanding and finding the principles we end up breaking down a picture instead of just looking at the ‘whole’ and so, we end up enhancing our critical eye and I would like to think, become better designers because of it. 


After doing our Gestalt presentations, I came across a few blogs where the principles are shown in advertisements. So decided to place them here for interests sake.


The gestalt principles are found in all areas of design, this IPOD add for instance uses both similarity and figure and ground.

Also this Absolut vodka advert. The principle used here is closure. Found this here

 Thought this was an awesome piece of design. Found this here

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