In this weeks type and grid workshop, we were asked to take away what we had learnt about Van De Graaf, margins, gutters and proportions and apply them to our own DPS design, The main message we were taught today, is that there is not right or wrong answer of where to use a certain grid or what size margins to use it more often comes down to what is needed from the design.
The eye can be a funny thing, and it takes time usually for the eyes and brain to register where certain elements are on a page, but there are certain areas which seem to be more natural for the eye to look at and without knowing it we would view a page and the layout will either work or it won't.
For my DPS i decided to stick with the Van De Graaf proportions of the center image boxes and just edit the margins as well as splitting the initial box size into 2 and having 2 columns of text underneath each image.
As was explained to us in lesson, more often than not it is more common to have a bigger margin on the bottom and the inside fold, as this is where the spine of the publication would be.
Below is my margin sizing.
Even though the margin size has changed, the Van De Graaf technique and image boxes can stay the same size as the actual paper size itself has not been changed.
Once the images have been dropped and edited in Photoshop you can see that even though the boxes created are not central on the page, far from it in fact, they still look well placed and well proportioned to each other.
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