Research point:

I love this layout: especially the layout at the bottom. It is in a simple grid. It is like one column text with three columns inside.

Reaserch point: the very first layouts of text and picture

I saw one part of a Franch series around the photo. Really nice to see how the basic composition grows up to photomontage and juxtaposition of text and photographs.

Reasearch point: magazines layout

I bought a few magazines. What a surprise that one of them is using the two-column system as in the book examples. Anyway, there is a visible system of grids. The same techniques with picture juxtaposition. The beginning of the chapter is similar to the books. The margins and gutters, on the other hand, are not so spacious probably due to keeping costs down.

Research point: Fully Book and Turning pages

I like these two books. They are full of examples of how to use the grid and broke the rules.

Research point

I put six books about art down:

I found in each a page with text and a picture. As a first, I wanted to know what typefaces are used. The application What The Found was not successful. I looked back in my Graphic design 1 study and I found this webpage http://www.identifont.com, which helped me to identify the typefaces. The step by step process of the researching reminds me how details are important to find the right typeface. Especially the tiny details around number 4, font Q, K, M. Really great repetition.

1. headline and text is sans serif FAKT typeface
2. text is serif Berthold Baskerville (when researching the typeface I felt nonconformity to read the text, probably due to a high of text - too small)
3. text is Newton
4. text is Fakt typeface

The similarities:

• two columns per page
• pictures positioned in the same grid as columns
• the beginning of chapter has a little bit different layout but owned some similarities such as fulfilled one page with a picture
• margins and gutters have enough space

I noticed, even they have the same layout across the whole book, some pages broke the rule. Here are nice examples from these books.

20000 Leagues Under The Sea and What Font application

When I saw the book 20000 Leagues Under the Sea in the book Fully booked I ordered it immediately. It is pop-masterpiece.

I wanted to know what typeface was used in the book. I found a great application which showed me that the typeface is Chatterbox.

Exercise Key characters: Typography Insight again Helvetica vs Ariel

I wanted to see what differences are between Helvetica and Ariel. There are fonts which are very close and there are fonts such as 3 @ R and G which makes the typefaces visibly different.

Exercise: Key characters: Adobe's Typography Insight application

I found this application already installed on my tablet. It is a great application to discover basics, anytomy, history, typesetting, comparison. Really great application. Nice how the typefaces involved from humanist to grotesk - sans serif.