Tutorial question: Name three laws of Gestalt Theory and provide examples to illustrate your point.
Gestalt Theory have five laws: Proximity, Similarity, Common Fate, Pregnantz and Closure. I will choose three of them for explanation here.
First of all, the Pregnantz, it means using different forms or arrangement to convey same information. For example let's take a series of advertisement from Absolut Vodka as shown below.
This advertising campaigns, which using various kinds of ads to reach a particular audience. Absolut Vodka is a famous brand of alcoholic drinks. It's pure, simple and perfect are the core value of the brand. They do their marketing management and advertising around the core. Just like these ads, they combined the shape of the bottle and the unique feature of different cities to show the core of the brand to audiences.
These series of ads also have good achievements. This is a good example by using Pregnantz. Different images, different combination, but the same idea can send out the same information. Because it shows us that even diversity can also provide us the same information.
The second one I want to explain is Closure. This here means we see objects as a whole. Even though it's just a part of the whole, or there are something wrong in what we look at but we still can understand, and unconsciously to manipulate them to a right track. Look at the following example:
This is a print advertisement of DIESEL Jeans. The ads show us a part of our legs, not the whole jeans, but when we see it we will associate the whole jeans. From here we know it's an advertisement of a jeans. The design which use closure, will create an imaginary space to audiences.
Now here, the last one but not least, is the Similarity. Look at the Nescafe advertisement.
The advertisement is based on the same concept. A lot of "Z" in the image, but because of it our eyes movement will concentrate on the similar but different one -"N" easily, which plays an emphasis effect.
Reference:
Rudolf Arnheim.New essay on the psychology of art.Berkeley,Los Angeles,London university of California Press,1986
Heshui Huang(黄合水),Psychology of advertising,XiaMen university press,2009
Wendell C.Crow,Communication Graphics,Prentice-Hall,Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey 07632
Heshui Huang(黄合水),Psychology of advertising,XiaMen university press,2009
Wendell C.Crow,Communication Graphics,Prentice-Hall,Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey 07632









