Radial Balance in Two-Dimensional Design

Video Transcript

"There is a third type of balance, it's not used, perhaps, quite so often, it's not the first thing that would occur to you, but there is radial balance. And really what that means is sort of what it sounds like, radius is the radius of the circle, it comes out from a center. So usually these items turn out to be symmetrical because they're governed by, they all radiate out from a center, so they tend to be symmetrical. So this is a very simple radial design, the design is really fixed around a center point. Now, it can also be a spiral because that also is figured out from a center point, but in this case it kind of moves outward from center, (if I can get this to go right). This is why I use triangles because they have points and it's a little bit easier to make the point, we're trying to make shapes move with the triangle. So we've got something kind of like that, and you can see the spiral motion starting to happen, curving around. But it really stops here, this is the guiding principle of the spiral, so again, its radial symmetry."