-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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