Grids and Layout

The task set by Joseph Frascina

This task is all about making and breaking the grid. There are a number of ways to set up a grid when designing your editorial;

• Format — The full design area
• Margins
• Flowlines — Helps the reader follow the content
• Rows — Horizontal
• Colomns — Vertical
• Modules — Boxes made from the crossover of rows and colomns.
• Spacial Zones — Group of modules
• Gutter space — The gaps between rows and colomns.

Some diferent types of grid include:

• Manuscript — Used for books or large areas of text
• Baseline
• Colomn
• Modular

The task set by Joe at first was to use a grid structure and use the elements given to create a spread. I used a colomn grid and this was my design.

I think that this looks clean and fresh. I quite like the structure but it is not very exciting to look at in my opinion. So I was very excited to start on the second part of this task which was breaking the grid, this is what I came up with.

Straight away, there is a lot more going on and it is much more visually exciting. I would look at this spread for much longer than the organised one. This is why I now realise how important it is to break the grid.