OUGD404 - Design Principles - Thumbnails Grid Layout -

Today for Fred's lesson, we recapped on last weeks work with the newspaper/magazine grid layouts. 

Fred spoke about how that when there are more horizontals seen within our tracings out than that its more likely to be a modular grid being used for the publication. He also mentioned when tracing a double page spread layout that when there are adverts or images taking up significant amounts of space then the traced layout should be placed on other double page spread from the same layout, so the other sections from grid can be unlocked.

We went through our previous traced grid layouts and re-edited them so each element of the spread was annotated.

After doing this, Fred talked to us about the use of thumbnail grid layouts and the importance of them within the process of re-designing layouts. He showed us thorough examples of 2nd & 3rd year grid thumbnails and continued to show us a method of how to create proportionate thumbnails for grid layouts. We followed his instructions and drew out a page layout with the dimensions 340x240mm.  A diagonal was drawn from one corner to the other so it kept the smaller thumbnails proportionate to the layout size. We were informed to use a 6 column grid layout on the thumbnails as it was an introductory task to thumbnails, making it simple.

After drawing the initial 6 column grid thumbnail on layout paper, we were given tracing paper to place on top so we could trace the layout again and again for multiple layout variations of our chosen newspaper/magazine.

Here are the thumbnail layouts I created 

For Next Week:

I've already decided what my definite 5 questions/statements are for the content and have a supply of information. I need to whittle the information down so its more fluent and gives me more room for playing with the layout of the designs.

I need use the skills from todays session and incorporate it into the process of creating the 10 double page spreads. I need to draw out multiple thumbnails in order to get some ideas flowing for arrangement, placement and layout.