Design | Learning Task 8 : Grid Layout

Find two magazine layouts that appear to use a grid system. Ensure you have permission to write all over them.

Take a photo before you cover it with ink. Then with a felt-tip marker, indicate on it where you think the grid is. Use equal -width columns.

Hint: if an item seems to go over more than one grid column that doesn't mean the grid stops, just draw over it.

 
Now find two examples from any source (but not magazines) that adhere to a equal-width-column grid. Car signage, clothing, architecture; it's your choice.

Note: When drawing the grid use equal width columns. By doing this it makes the grid usable across pages. Recall that repetition (consistency) is one of the design principles.

Now find two new layouts (from any source) that don't appear to follow a grid.
Explain why you think they don't use a grid.
Hint: Raygun Magazine or most designs by David Carson.
Can you see ANY design principles in the examples you chose? 

 This one I don't think follows a grid because the text is pretty minimal, there's more of a horizontal grid structure to it than a vertical one, but it's very loose and not exact, mainly it divides the titles and their faces.

 This one I don't think follows a grid system, as the shapes and placement of the text over the pictures is in a varied way with lots of shapes and overlapping. It kind of adheres to the Gutenberg Diagram from the next task, your eye is drawn from the top left and then downwards in a diagonal way so that you see the pictures in story order.