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Project: Magazines and Books Handling large amounts of text is an essential problem when designing the inner pages of magazines and books. It is about using visual dynamics to create something interesting and balancing it with the need to make text readable. Typographic hierarchies will give the whole page order, you always have to consider being dynamic and orderly at the same time when creating a layout. The grid was created by designers to deal with these apparent contradictions, it is designed to accommodate all the visual elements of your particular design. It considers proportion , relationship and measurement . The master page layout is there to fit in all of your designs. There is multiple things to consider when designing your grid for example: how many columns do you require for text and images, the distance between these columns and the space for the margins around the outside and of course the blank space that allows you to read your content that's wound throu...

For this assignment I chose the book cover brief, I really enjoyed the other book cover tasks and thought it would be a lot of fun to create more. Penguin Books has asked me to design a new house style for a collection of books on design for children and young people. They are starting with three titles; colour, photography and typography. The designs have to be recognised as a series and also be appreciated for their own individual merit. The first thing I did was decide on the style I was going to create the book covers, on one of the other units I created a photo montage, my tutor really liked this style and I thought that It would be a good place to start with my book covers. I also wanted another theme that flowed throughout the covers. I had the idea of using decades and their defining characteristics regarding the theme of the covers. I chooses the 60s, 70s and 80s. This wasn't going to be all the cover was to include but rather just a background theme that helps connect t...