Type & Grid

We have been given a brief that is quite different from all the rest and it involves a lot of thinking and time consuming detail to get it right. The main aim is to, at the end of this, come up with 3 digitalised double-page spread magazine layouts. However, the process to get to that point and the sessions we have already begun this in, have already taught me a lot about how magazines and newspapers actually use grids and how technical it is to do it all by hand. I am currently designing hand-drawn layouts sticking to a specific grid for the columns and researching interesting magazine layouts.

Here are some that show interesting grids and layouts of columns and images across the spread: