W10-11 – Basic Principles of Layout – LA

Layout – W10-11 – Basic Principles of Layout – Learning Activity

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.

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I found that the three spreads pictured above had the same exact measurements and grids. It seems that the text-pages had two columns and the photo-pages consist of three columns. Borders and everything is the same on all three spreads. One page has wrong measurements because it’s really difficult to measure the whole page when its in a magazine.