Assignment: Take a magazine, newspaper or book that includes images and text. Lay tracing paper over the top of three spreads (both left-hand and right-hand pages). Using a pencil and ruler, carefully trace the grid underlying the page layouts. Remember to remove specific text elements or images, and to only draw the grid lines. Note column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and to the left and right of the main body of text. Is your document based on a two-column, three-column, or another type of grid? Which elements stay the same on each page, and which change.
I choose three different books/magazines. I used both left and right hand pages for this assignment. I did not have tracing paper, but I used baking paper.
First I used my Costume magazine, where I choose a left hand page. The grid do not vary so much, but the picture grid are not the same. One of the pictures stretches all the way to the top, and it goes further out to the margin than the one under.
Next I choose a book, and I used a right hand page. The book is called “Naturfag 3”. The grid here are pretty simple, and it is made of two columns.
The last book I used was our learning book, Graphic Design School. The grid in our school book are made of three columns, and two lines. Everything is on line.
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