Nice use of white

Of all the seasons, winter has to be the best graphic designer.

Fall gets the best colors. Summer uses green to great effect. Spring’s tiny buds all over great big brown maples and the varying shades of birches are whimsical. The flowers are great, too, especially after the spare palette of winter.

But what winter accomplishes with that palette is amazing.

Look at it this way: let’s say you have an image that’s not particularly exciting but you need to make something compelling out of it. Would you go to a graphic designer and say, “Just put a few inches of white on everything?”

I wouldn’t. But look at this:

 

Winter just makes it look good.