ARTTECHES NEXUS • GRAPHIC DESIGNING MASTERY
- ARTTECHES NEXUS • GRAPHIC DESIGNING MASTERY
- DAY 04
- Answer Key — Day-04: Composition, Layout, Grids & Visual Hierarchy
- Correct answers with explanations.
- Instructor: Ali Akbar Shah
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- Answer 1
- What is "visual hierarchy" in a design?
- ✓ B — The planned order (1st, 2nd, 3rd) in which the viewer's eye sees elements, built with size, weight, color, position, and space.
- Why: Hierarchy is the designer controlling the eye's journey — what gets seen first, second, third.
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- Answer 2
- According to the rule of thirds, where should you place the most important element of a layout?
- ✓ C — On or near one of the four intersection points (power points) of a 3×3 grid.
- Why: The eye finds these points naturally interesting; dead center often looks static.
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- Answer 3
- A poster designer places the headline top-left, a key image top-right, details along the middle, and the phone number bottom-right. Which reading pattern is she designing for?
- ✓ B — Z-pattern.
- Why: Top-left → top-right → diagonal → bottom-right is the Z eye-movement on simple layouts like posters and flyers.
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- Answer 4
- Which of the following is NOT one of the three jobs of negative space?
- ✓ D — Filling every corner so no space is wasted.
- Why: That is the opposite of negative space — its jobs are focus, clarity, and premium feeling.
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- Answer 5
- ✓ The phone number became the visual winner (too big/bold/isolated), so the hierarchy put rank 1 on the wrong element. Fixes: make "50% SALE" the biggest, boldest element; shrink and regroup the phone number with the...
- Why: The 3-second test exposed inverted hierarchy — the fix restores the correct 1st-2nd-3rd order.
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- Answers Reviewed
- ✓ Every mistake is a lesson — revisit the topic.
- ✓ Instructors: keep this file separate from quizzes.
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