my problem......

the problem with me is im never updating this blog with the things ive been doing! so im making an effort to put every little bit of work i can on here and show more development. so heres a look at the first attempt of my spread done about 5 days ago! (see told you i dont put up enough work)

ill ill ill

been to the doctors, tell me i have a chest infection! boo hiss.
well anyhow this has meant ive had some more time to look at layout design. its actually something i might like to go into as a career. its intresting how placement can give context to text and images ( which already have their own context)  ive spent most of the day trying to undersatnd golden sections and fibonacci series,  im hoping to apply this to my final layouts.
 both my final layouts will be module based grids.

links to topics.

http://www.mackinnonandsaunders.com/ this is the puppet company im basing my first article about.

http://www.prideofmanchester.com/movies/films.htm a few filsm over the years that have used manchester as its backdrop.

my choice of grid.

this is a 5x6 grid system. i have chosen this for several reasons. the first being it lends itsself to a lot of diffrent layouts of text and images. the second being that the smaller squares will hopefully given the impression of small scale things ( puppets) . the baselines arent particularly set in stone. as you can obviously use more than a few columns for text,

some lovely words to learn......

Appropriation: this is the borrowing of a style used else where, as the basis of your design.

Baseline: type is placed to sit on the baseline of the grid. an examples of this would be lined paper. the use the line to wirte across and never go into the line above.

Dummy:  A practice layout that will show the placement of texts and images as they will appear in the final piece.

exquisite corpse: surrealist techinique that exploits the happy chance of accident in imagw/text juxtaposition.

Impart: the suggestion of ideas via the presentation ofinformation in a design. the viewer decodes the information to arrive at the required interpretation.

Impostion: the arragenmnet of pages  in the orderthey will appear when put together in its final format. (impostion plan) thumbnails of the impostion arrangement.

recto: the right hand page of an open book.

verso: the left hand page of an open book.

not posted in a while!

sorry if if seems a bit silent on the blog at the moment, this doesnt mean ive been slacking! no no ive been learning all sorts of things!  to start i will share my ideas for the two articles and advertisment.
the first article is about a manchetser based company that make models and puppets for tv and movie.  Mackinon & saunders have worked on films such as james and the giant peach as well as the corspe bride and enid blytons  'noddy' tv series.
the second article will be about locations used in manchester for movies. the new sherlock holmes film used manchester town hall as the houses of parliment, and some of the strrets where used as new york for the remake of alfie staring jude law.

my final piece will be about a fictional exhibition of models and puppets that would appear in the museum of science and industry- enttiled 'its a small world'

im going to post a tons of definitions i have descovered while researching layouts so keep reading.

final image