Composition layout ideas

Final Major Project – Composition layout ideas

These are the start of experimenting with composition layouts for the A6 booklet. Working with arrangement and placement of the illustration to text. Experimenting with the idea of possibly giving a spread for a few of the articles. This would help for larger illustrations and also help thicken the book.

I took these few layout ideas to a critique. After experimenting with these few I realised that I wasn’t getting the look I wanted from the booklet. Instead these are becoming too much like a comic. My illustration style generally is cartoon like, I need a way of altering these to become more sophisticated. After designing these, I have decided that creating a sophisticated looking book will be much more appealing, and contradict the message of these articles that are far from professional.

I was given some advice to reduce the size of the illustrations, this will help to create a more professional look with trying not to fill white space which is a habbit I have. I need to work with the type and image relation and allow for white space between to become part of the composition, The space will allow for the image and type to breath.

The typography needs to be experimented with, I have decided that I don’t need to include the name of each, I just need to include the title of the article. Because sure enough The Daily Mail makes the titles catchy enough e.g ‘Is your bra bad for you?’

As for the illustrations, these will need to be experimented with to change their style and seem less child like.