Using the program Adobe Illustrator, we were required to demonstrate the basic gestalt principles—foreground, middle ground, and background, figure-ground, similarity, proximity, closure, continuation, and symmetry.

Only being given an 8x8 inch space to work with, we took nine black squares and arranged them in such as to show our knowledge of each concept. For example, you could illustrate proximity by positioning some of the one inch black squares closer together and some of them farther away from each other. This would give the illusion of different groups based on how close together the squares were.