Thursday, 28 February 2013

Grids & Devine Proportions - Phil

Construction

Before you can apply a grid you need to understand the requirement of the grid. Gives you an idea what to work from. Typeface, text & illustrations, print method and paper quality must be confirmed beforehand.

Always start with small sketches...

Thumbnail sketches will make your job of final layouts easier and productive.

Before drawing your sketches, consider the number of columns needed.

Disadvantages of six column systems are that lines of text will be narraw. Small typeface will have to be used. But this solely rests on the function that is to be performed!


The width of a column dictates the size of typeface used.
The rule:
The narrower a column is the smaller the typeface.

8 Filed Grid
A4+  Formst
8&20 grid fields

8 grid fields are used frequently for advertising.


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