Week 6A- Sept. 30

Today in class, we reviewed the readings, which were about the grid systems and how designers can manipulate them in their own publications. The next section of the readings was how images can be arranged within a spread, and how closely they can intertwine with typography in terms of lights and darks, linear motion and volume, contours, and open or closed spaces. We also had a lecture on the different components of the grid system, which we will need to know for the midterm exam.

Then, we went over to the middle room again and posted all of our spreads on the white board at once, and went around writing comments on or beside each to critique them. I received a generous amount of comments on mine on what I can improve, and I plan to take those comments and utilize them to make my spread better, as I did not originally feel too strong about my spread in the first place but couldn't figure out how to make it better.

The rest of the class consisted of working on fixing our spreads based off of the comments we each received, which all of us were told to do.

Homework:
1. Print spread in proper format (10x16 each page)
2. Make Noticable progress on layouts from what you have done from the end of class...PRINT
3. Read Pages: 68-73-- Grid Systems and Types