Do the design first to understand the magical magic number "3"

"Dawson One, life two, two born three, Sansheng everything." "--Laozi's Sutra of Morals"

is 3 just a number?

3 can also represent more!?

The number 3 is driving the development of photography, design, architecture and natural law?

Let's look at the magic of the number 3 together. To understand why web design, print advertising, logo design and digital 3 are closely related.

Three of the design

In fact, the number 3 is a close friend of the designer. 3 is a design method, a design pattern. 3 is beautiful, 3 is symmetrical, 3 is a design thinking.

Let's take a look at theborsky.com you'll find that number 3 has multiple effects. Three columns or three cards, title + content + Details =3

Horizontal three-column layout, vertically to take the stack. The three-column layout of vizzuality.com is very effective for galleries and blog posts.

Not only three column, but also three columns. Three features of the product, one layer, the perfect presentation.

You can also use this approach to abstract three-way layout: Divide the content into three blocks, two columns. You see, everywhere, a great contribution to the message.

Before the advent of the Internet, 3 guided the designers ' minds. The printing designer knows the way. The following ads are divided into three lines and three columns. and three chess pieces.

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Three of photography and art

is 3 limited to web design and print design? Think about it, 3 is everywhere, in photography, Magic 3 instructs us to split the image with the grid, to guide how we compose--three-point composition method (rule of thirds)

The beautiful butterfly:

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Show the viewer the direction of the action.

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Friends surround the warmth of the surrounding

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Extremely lonely.

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Not only did the photographer draw on the three-point composition method, the art of painting used this technique before.

Van Gogh understood the magic of 3:

The composition is centered on the sides of Jesus, like a equilateral, a skill of composition with a sense of power. Leonardo da Vinci is a worthy master.

How can we lose one of the three, Michelangelo?

Building

3 of the ambition is more than that, 3 never stop, we look at the building. Triangle composition

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The laws of nature and the principles of mathematics

Some people say that the three-point composition method is a lazy way, the Fibonacci and the proportion of the inaccurate imitation of the golden, but lazy people always have a coup.

The magic of the three

Many people believe that the Fibonacci sequence governs the natural world, lurking in plants, shells, and trunks.

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You can't help but ask, so what?

The solar system from inside to outside, the Earth ranked third. The DNA code uses the three-conjoined cipher system. When it comes to religion, Trinity, three days after the death of Jesus, the three Buddhist treasures, the Hindu Trinity ... Not to say, and then digress, in fact, our world can not get rid of 3. You might say, you're a liar, and if you talk about 4, 5, 6 of these numbers, you can also make up a lot of preaching. Why should our designers trust you?

Well, whether you believe 3 is the great theme of the universe, ruling the world, or just think it's just a gimmick. But we humans indeed through 3, learned another way of observation, observed more beautiful and majestic.

As a designer, if you want to have a logical arrangement of elements in a visual layout, think about 3, and this design thinking can be a good way to help you.

The number 3 lets the segmentation page become simple to answer, lets the information become more layered, can highlight the characteristic, creates the impressive logo

When the inherent thinking no longer applies, you may wish to jump out, change the way of thinking. 3 will never be obsolete. The man-made trend will ebb and flow, decorative or simple. The eternal Law of the world and the beauty of all things never fall behind.

Where Else do you Three?

In fact, the intention of this article is not to blow water, nor is it to publish the words of God stick, just want to introduce a design thinking, from history, from mathematics, from all things in search of design methods. When you are not inspired and encounter bottlenecks, this article can be a eye-opener for you and give you a variety of inspiration. In fact, if you can understand what I mean, you will understand that 3 can be a proportion, or it can be a division that keeps the distance.

Keep in mind that the most disciplined people tend to break the rules first because they are skilled, so they look farther. Using 3 can make your design unique, but if everyone is imitating this style, but also to ordinary how to do? When you apply freely, you can break 3, with your own understanding to design!

Welcome to the discussion!