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50 Awesome Examples of Triangles in Design

September 08, 2009

Today I will profess my love for triangles! Strange love to have, I know. But seriously, right after circles, triangles are the next best thing.

I've always loved triangular elements in design. For me it completes the piece. You can have a very simple composition but as soon as you add a triangle it becomes magical in my eyes :D Apparently triangles are the most unpleasing shape because it confuses the eye with its odd number of points. I heard that in some high school art class once but I don't believe it. Triangles are lovely.

Anyway, enough about that. Here I gathered some nice examples of triangles in design. Some of these have an overall very geometric feel to it (like the ones from Andy Gilmore for example), while others are just simple compositions with a triangle thrown in there. Hope you guys enjoy these and feel free to share with me your undying love for triangles via twitter or facebook ;)

Jim O'Raw

Merdanchik Sanchos-Yohanson

Mikus Vanags

Abel Martinez Foronda

Scott Barry

Marc Roy

Gavin Potenza

Michael Paul Young

Stas Sipovich

Kolbe Maisòn

Andy Gilmore

Chris Lee

Mark Weaver

Herman Lee

Robert T. McCall

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I am Amanda Macedo - a student, photography enthusiast, and lover of life. I eat, sleep and breathe art, and I hope to share with you some of my thoughts and findings here at Abduzeedo as I further my discovery of graphic design. You can also find me on Twitter: @amlight

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19 Comments

Justin St. Germain09/08/2009

you left out the best one...
http://www.worldtributebands.com/PinkFloydDarkSideoftheMoonalbumcover.jpg

kaaliss09/08/2009

Awesome article, very very good, thks a lot.
Posted it on my posterous: http://nicolascornwall.posterous.com/

Joris Hoogendoorn09/08/2009

What about this one? A triangle website: http://www.thevectormonkeys.nl/?p=65

Yoshikun09/08/2009

Gah, the triangle trend is getting rather old.
Everyone is doing it.
We get it...

I don't like these trends that start with some really good designs.
After a while everyone is doing it and it takes away from the original good ones.
Come one people, try not to fall for designtrends.

Backgrounds made of wallpaper was really cool, now they make me sick.
Then came the wooden floor backgrounds...
Vector traced photos was great in the beginning.
As good as the internet is this is certainly a side effect.

My bet for the next popular shape is the hexagon. Just wait for it.

signalstarr09/08/2009

Amanda!

Please consider some of these for this post!
thanks

Nick

http://nickhoyle.blogspot.com/

viktorpiktor09/08/2009

veryveryveryvery nice and stylish collection

congratulation!!! :D

DEF1309/08/2009

Justin St. Germain
+10 000

"Dark side of the moon" album cover is the best one !

Bastien A09/08/2009

You may like to add my works, feel free to watch my DA gallery : http://nipson.deviantart.com

Anonymous09/08/2009

Was HOPING Dark Side would be on here. I'm with the others. Surprised its not.

Filipe09/08/2009

What about this triangles? :)

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Into-the-night/226639

designiac09/08/2009

what a topic!

Gris09/08/2009

I LOVE ?

MINE

? man

Lucy in the sky with Triangles

blacker design09/08/2009

I love triangles, have ever since i came in touch with geometric shapes :)

sweet post!

Arnaud Jolois09/08/2009

Awsome!!

Erimo09/08/2009

Good post... !
but, you left out the great dark side of the moon.

emmy nho09/08/2009

Triangles are super-common now... Not original anymore, but they usually make quite stylish designs, so I guess it's still okay :)

supra shoes09/09/2009

As good as the internet is this is certainly a side effect.

lunik3309/10/2009

trendy.

amanda09/11/2009

Hey guys,

The reason I didn't include Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is because I try to stay away from things that are too mainstream and show you guys something new! Of course, that was a great album cover but I think everybody's familiar with it by now. At least this way you get to familiarize yourselves with different designs and designers :)

@Filipe Your work is awesome! It's a shame I didn't see it before writing this!

@Gris I think I commented on your Facebook about that first picture! I lovelovelove it!

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