In this weeks seminar, we were given the task of creating a magazine spread using materials we were given. We were put into groups, where we had to pick a set of material each and decide on some rules of design that we all had to follow. Our rules were as follows:
- 3 columns
- Title font - Helvetica
- Title colour - Black
- Title size - to fit length of page
- Body size - 9
- Body font - Baskerville
- 2 page spread
- First paragraph bold
- Pull quotes size - 16
As you can see above, I have followed all of the above requirements for the magazine spread I have produced.
As the theme of this weeks session was 'breaking the grid', I ensured that my pull quotes did exactly this. All of my pull quotes are outside of the original grid columns that we placed. I did this in order to make them stand out, as although they are in red font, italics and quotations marks, as well as being in a bigger font and bold, they would not stand out as much if they were hidden into the same format as the main body text. By breaking the grid it allows the quotations to stand out and ensure that they are the first thing that the reader reads.
This is a common occurrence in magazine spreads, however not so much in newspapers.
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