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DSG-B-02 Visual Design Taste Beginner

White Space

Using empty space as active design element, not waste

The five levels

Each anchor describes what separates one level from the next — not a general description of quality. This is the text the evaluator itself reads.

  • Level 1 Below Standard

    Fear of empty space — filling every place

    Example Design overcrowded with texts and elements without breathing

  • Level 2 Approaching

    Some space but not deliberately distributed

    Example Space in some areas and overcrowding in others

  • Level 3 At Standard

    Appropriate white space giving design rest

    Example Design breathes and rests the eye

  • Level 4 Above Standard

    Using space as design element adding meaning

    Example Space expresses and highlights simultaneously

  • Level 5 Exemplary

    Space is design's hero, expressing powerfully

    Example Space says what elements don't

Where does your own work sit on these levels?

Submit one work to be read against this criterion alone: your position across the five levels, why you are not higher and why not lower, three literal quotes from your own work, and one exercise with its success check. Your first card is free.

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