Page Layout

By Matthew Benkert 

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These are different magazine covers for Tyografik. The same typeface has been used in every design but composed in new and creative ways. 

By Sidney Lim

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An effective use of warm colours to create a visual identity for an event. Block colours have been used in the shapes of squares and rectangles to create a grid layout for different layouts. A cream background has been used to complement these colours, as well as the grey tall block letters for the display font. These designs emit a warm, hopeful attitude, relevant to this event in Singapore to talk about future prophets for the country. 

By Sidney Lim

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Lim has used elements of typography and created a snarky tone of voice to create a unique work that otherwise makes a boring topic about grammar and punctuation interesting. Spacing and alinements have been used in great diversity, making each page fresh, a hard feat when only dealing with black and white colours. The display text consists of large block letters drawing attention to large quotes of subheadings. The title Full Stop. is represented in a minimal manner on the front page with only a blurred image on the bottom half of the page that bleeds horizontally of the page. This is an effective use navigation and hierarchy in typography and page layout.  

Magazine spreads I composed on InDesign for a university assignment. My magazine 'Art Ink' was centred around the concept of street art, so I used Alison Young's article 'Illegal/Legal, Street art in Australia' as the featuring body text in my spreads. These photos where taken locally in Canberra. I used a typeface with block letters and triangular shapes, similar to graffiti style street art. I used it in both black and white to create a contrast with its relevant background colour. I used horizontal lines to guide the subheadings, producing a grid for the rest of my body text to fit. This was effective in spacing and creating a clean but fun look relevant to street art. 

I created these through a combination of scanned magazine cut outs and digital illustrator editing. I experimented different textures and effects that an A4 piece of paper could produce by folding and manipulating it multiple times through a scanner. This created the different backgrounds. By searching for the necessary words and letters in magazines I explored many typefaces and tried to use each type with balance and tension, creating a cohesive layout. Variation in size, selective colour palletes and weight contributed to this notion.