Vector Do's & Don'ts III

Cropping and Alignment (Jayesh)

There are countless ways to organize vector elements on an artboard. That’s one of the best things about vectors: It’s easy to break them apart and tinker with individual shapes, without the loss of image quality you often see when editing a raster file. That said, vectors can easily suffer from poor decisions when it comes to composition and cropping.

The elements in Example 1 have been aligned to the vertical or horizontal edges of each other. This creates awkwardly tight eye movements for the viewers, and makes things appear cut off.

Negative space is wonderful when used effectively. On the other hand, abandoning large areas of real estate within an illustration, or chopping off shapes without forethought, just shows poor planning, like in Example 2.

Clumping everything into the centre in Example 3 not only creates a rushed and unplanned composition, it is just bad feng shui.click here for Full Article.