Grids and type continued...

I choose to redesign this article about cricket in Afganistan from 'ShortList' as it had a few images to work from and quite a bit of text. I liked the original layout... but hate wonky photographs... To be honest when I looked closer as I created my thumbnails the images are pretty naff and so I kept the main image but made more use of it and got rid of the others. I feel that in my new layout they are not needed and it doesn't matter that they have been made obsolete.

I used a 12 column grid as I couldn't work out an exact one from the magazine... but there were alot of columns. I really like what I have produced, layout design and working with type is definitely for me. It is what I have always done when I worked and I still love it!

Selection of thumbnails. 

Top two thumbnails draw at half actual size.

Original DPS

Screen grab of InDesign file showing grids and guides. 

Grids and Type

20.04.10 - Maths with smiles
I am pretty set on chosing to specialise in type next year and so I was really interested about the classes with Lorenzo. In the first session I measured type and learnt about ems.

• Pica em - the size of a letter m at 12 pt in any typeface
• em - the size of a letter m at any size in any typeface
• ligatures join awkward letters such as ff

To measure the size of any letter, go from the top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender. Then to measure the leading go from the bottom of the descender to the bottom of the next lines descender.

Front cover of chosen magazine and colour coded hand drawn grid.

3 column layout uses green columns.

4 column layout uses blue columns.

5 column layout uses yellow columns.