Saturday, 8 February 2014

#6 Layout/Grid

"Without the grid nothing is possible. The grid means reference, order, hierarchy. The grid can be silent or loud. Most importantly, you can be imaginative and free working with the grid."


  • The grid is the structure that holds a publication's design together: it is the rules that each page must conform to, the invisible threads that keep  text and images in position. 

Simple grid structure in a newspaper. Usually newspapers don't have a complicated grid because they have to change the news sometimes really quickly.

  • Two elements to a grid: horizontal lines - used to direct the placement of text boxes, images and  baselines for typography

                                    vertical lines  - guide the positions of the columns


  • The grid dictates the scope of what is left: the use of white space. 


Grid


No grid



examples of how you can play when using the grid

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