Choose a magazine, newspaper or journal and work out the grid or grids they have used. You will probably need to look at least four pages to get a feel of the layout. Measure the size of the pages, the margins, the text columns and the gaps in between them. How many columns do they…
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Exercise: Hierarchy
Brief Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • an interview with a TV actor in a listings magazine entitled: Will Sheila tell the naked truth? • a review of a new piece of hardware or software in a specialist computer magazine • a book review…
Research point: Magazine Layouts
In this research point I was asked to collect some magazines to see what works and what doesn’t in terms of layout. I don’t have access to many paper magazines and I didn’t want to buy any for the sake of this experiment, so I begun by looking at magazines online to see what I…
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