A designer's guide to the Golden Ratio

An image of a shell representing the golden ratio
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What is the Golden Ratio? We'll this guide aims to explain just that, as well as provide ideas for how you can use it as an artist or designer. It's a useful concept for graphic designers, illustrators and digital artists because it can be used to create organic-looking, visually-pleasing compositions in art and design.

In a nutshell, the Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Mean, Golden Section or the Greek letter phi, is a mathematical ratio that can be expressed algebraically. But it's also commonly found in nature when the ratio of two quantities is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

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