Grids are the skeleton that a layout is built upon. This helps organisation, readability, to produce the piece easier and quicker, easier for collaboration, easier to balance the design, creates an easy to make multi-page layout with consistency, enhances visual hierarchy, creates a starting point for your design and can be used to break the rules for impact. There is a full anatomy to a grid:
Format - the full area/space for all the elements.
Margin - space between the content and the edge.
Flowlines - to line up the text correctly.
Modules - space between the vertical and horizontal gutters
Spacial Zones - multiple modules
Columns - vertical spacial zones
Rows - horizontal spacial zones
Gutters - spaces between the rows and columns. And making them equal creates visual balance
There are also types of grid:
Baseline - consistent typography size and leading. Mostly used for novels.
Manuscript - a large rectangular area which is good for continuous elements of text. A narrow box means a focus on the eye.
Column - useful for pull quotes and they could be regular or irregular for variations.
Modular - vertical and horizontal divisions. Useful for small chunks of information and to create spacial zones.
Hierarchical - Loose and organic grids which create more freedom and can unify different elements.
Pixel - useful for design on screen.
This lecture was useful by showing me key types of grids and layouts which I can refer to in my practice now and in the future to create successful editorial layouts.
{2018} Anna from andrzej żuławski’s possession {1981} from CINEWOMEN, a series of animation studies made with filmstills fun fact: during our four years in berlin we were living just a few streets from where this was filmed and where anna’s & mark’s apartment was located. we saw the film only after we moved there so this was such a nice surprise for us film crazies :) (laser prints, collage, gimp)
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