Tuesday 5 March 2013

Design Principles: Grids & Layout Week 4&5

Submission requirements :
-Blog with tasks etc
-Thumbnail layouts (strong collection)
-Enlarged and scaled thumbnails with rough measurements
-Traditional mark-up with margins, grids, size etc
-Digital mark-up
-10 double spreads or booklet format (content will be made up of '10 things')
-Consider printing method, format, final outcome, time, design and layout.
-Show a combination of layouts which conform and layouts which do the opposite.

Stuff to know and find out:
1. What are grids, columns, gutters, margins and pagination?
2. What are sub-heads, paragraphs, captions and ligatures?
3. What is DPS and what does it do?
4. What is Golden Section?
5. Explain why rulers, boxes, folio number, and drop caps.
6. What are picas, points and pixels?

Featured artists:

Abram Games

Neasden Control Centre - Stephen Smith

Newwork Magazine

NoZine

Paul Rand

Random Publication Designs

Saul Bass

Alexey Brodovich


Question Answered:
1. A grid is
2. A column runs vertically down the page and is usually used to break up large bodies of text that can't fit in a single box of text on a page. Columns are vertical blocks of content on a page, separated by gutters or rules. Columns are used to improve composition and readability.
3. A gutter is the inside margin or blank space between 2 facing pages. The gutter space is the extra space allowance used to accommodate the binding in books and magazines. The amount of gutter varies depending on the binding method.


New elements to research:
Greeking
Folio Numbers
Ligatures
Measures
Rules and Boxes

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