Questions about the Balance poster

What’s on the Balance poster?

Symmetrical against Asymmetrical, side by side. Symmetrical: Mirrored about an axis; Symmetrical: Immediate, formal, stable; Symmetrical: Reads as authority or ceremony; Symmetrical: Easy to achieve, hard to enliven; Symmetrical: The centre becomes the strongest place; Asymmetrical: Unequal parts, equal visual weight; Asymmetrical: Dynamic, informal, contemporary; Asymmetrical: A small dark can balance a large pale; Asymmetrical: Requires a judgement every time; Asymmetrical: Tension is part of the effect; Visual weight comes from value, chroma, size, isolation and interest, not from area a…. Turn the work upside down. Balance survives inversion; a composition held together by subject matter does not.

Who is the Balance poster for?

Balance belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning colour & composition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Balance poster?

Use it when a layout feels as though it is tipping and you cannot say why. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Balance belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Balance?

Colour Contrast, Additive & Subtractive and Scale & Proportion sit alongside Balance in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Colour ContrastAdditive & SubtractiveScale & Proportion

Is the Balance poster free to download and print?

Yes. Balance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Balance poster print at?

Balance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Balance loses nothing.Printing guide