Within this session where looking grids and grids systems as well as going over our initial research within our groups form last week. We started off by presenting our research to the people in our group on the question we go given last week. Within my group it was interesting to see what people had looked into while also going into depth so I can pick what information I personally find the most interesting to include in my double page spreads. After we had looked into the subjects and categories everyone had researched into a individual task we where set was to choose certain points or categories within the initial ten questions we researched and narrow these down to 5 definite subjects we where going to look more in-depth to and another 5 possible ones. One of my peers within my group brought up that we had not had a defined category on layout and grid. We thought this would be one of the most important things to include in our double page spreads and so I chose to include this is my final five. So far I have these are my final and possible five:
Final
- RGB & CMYK (How colour works)
- Type Anatomy
- History of Type?
- Legibility and Readability
- Grids and Layout
Possible
- Pantone
- Font Family
- How we see colour
- Serif vs Sans Serif
- Successful Type Design
Moving away from our groups, we moved onto thinking about what I personally already have and what I will need for content in the double page spreads. I now know I need the information from my groups research and the websites they have visited. As well as making a start and collecting the in-depth information on my five final chosen categories of research.
We then started to look at grids and the importance of them. Looking into the different grid systems that are available and how they work with sections, ratios and format. We where discussing grids within books and what classifies as a book, from this we looked into a range of binding that was interesting to learn about. Within this session I learned more terminology that I had not known before such as the difference between leaves and pages. Pagination and the use of gutter and creep was discussed which was very informative to know.
Looking into single and multi-column grids:
TASK - In the last session we where asked to bring along a double page spread. With this we where asked to find the grid used on it. I found that mine was a single column grid and because of this had trouble identifying the horizontal sections of the grid. I identified the alignment of type such as the title and headings of the page, which helped me to locate the vertical parts of the grid easily. We where asked to continue this task with other double page spreads and bring a variety of grids to the next session. This will hopefully help when developing thumbnails and ideas for the grids that I will use in my final 10 dps.
I have continued with this task for a further look into grids and layout. I have used the same woman's magazine for finding the grids. This was to see whether the magazine has the same or similar grid throughout or whether there are different grids for different pages. I firstly looked at two spreads that have a generous amount of body copy on them, so I could easily follow the layout and try to find the grid. Both of these came up with similar modular grids as they had both horizontal and vertical divisions continuing throughout the spreads. This grid was easier to find compared to the previous multi-column grid as finding the horizontals was much easier. This showed me the magazine used a similar grid through their spreads but I looked on a few more double page spreads to make sure:
As I wanted to find out whether this magazine used the same grid system throughout, I tried to find a spread that I thought would not fit in with the modular grid. I started off by finding the vertical alignments which were the easiest to find, making me think this was a mulit-column grid. However I then drew lines from the headings and subheadings which created vertical divisions. Although this looked mulit-column, how the body copy is positioned definitely fits in to the similar, if not the same, modular grid the previous two have:
Again from the same magazine, I wanted to see how a page with minimal amounts of text fits into the modular grid. I was now sure the same grid was used throughout the magazine but in different ways. It was interesting to see how the heading on the left leaf matched up with the body copy on the right, as at first glance it did not seem to align together until I started drawing the lines:
I wanted to find another grid that was different to the previous ones I had found. I looked in another woman's magazine but this time the magazine did not have as much text within the spreads. I found this harder to align information and find the grid used. I only ended up with a few lines and so I am unsure what type of grid this is. As it has both vertical and horizontal lines, I am tempted to think it is again a modular grid but still different to the other modular grids I had previously found:
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