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DIRECTION CONVEYS TIME AND EMOTION
In advertising, art and photography, the direction the subject is looking or the flow of the composition can affect the tone of the image. Left is the past, right is the future, up is positive, down is negative. For example: a subject looking up and to the right is looking positively into the future.
Jeremy Reid, Graphic Designer, Belleville, Ontario, Canada

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Peter Palmer - 2008-07-12
Rubbish!

Ian Rogers - 2008-04-11
This rule is also true of logo design - any logo facing right & upwards is perceived more positively, teh exception being in hat applicataion - a logo facing right will appear to be going backward, this is the one instance where a logo facing left is perceived as going forward (at least in cultures where left to right reading is the norm).