From the course: Learning Graphic Design: Layouts
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Asymmetrical
- Grids can be asymmetrical, too. Let's go back to the one-inch margin, then push the left margin in another half inch. The lower margin up a half inch. This gives us room for a folio, and room for a hand-hold. But these lines are still much too long, so we'll split the page into two columns. These are approximately 40-character lines, these are ideal. Typical magazine column, to these pages you can break up the text with callouts, which stay inside the grid lines. Let me remove the grid lines so we can see the page. Then let's push the top down to a more relaxed starting point. We've made a second grid line. You're free to do this, this gives us room for a top folio if we want. Or for an occasional callout. If you have a photo, it can be added like this. It bleeds past the grid and off the page, but the caption, which gets is own headline, remains inside the grid. Here's a variation. Same thing, the photo bleeds three sides to the bottom which makes it look really big. And the…
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