And thought that the only way to feature the entire object and comfortably design around it is to center everything on the page. This is of course depending on the rules that the designer is willing to break or bend or even follow but just wants to look conventional or... orthodox. So I went home and sculpted, out of some Sticky Tac I had near, a similar milkshake glass from what my memory served:
Then I thought to break that mold of only being able to design centered-ly with that item the key feature by altering it the slightest bit:
This opened up all possible alignments to the object. Flipping it makes the Right alight and turning 90 degrees either way gives it a centered look. SO. How long until we have all sorts of rag left and right dishes and objects? Apple moved their headphone jacks from the center to the left of the iPod. Sony took push-buttons on their higher end tvs from the center to the right side. It was awful, not that I saw it, but 'Good Luck Chuck' moved their movie poster credit block from the center to the right. I thought the ad campaign for that was a welcome breath of (originally I had an anti-'Good Luck Chuck' rant in these parentheses, but I'm clearly only speaking about the posters.) fresh air in the theatre lobbies. So, I flipped it and filtered it and here was my somewhat final product, untainted by the conventions of the 'center-aligned' milkshake glass.
