OUGD404 - Studio Brief 01 - CAD

Digital Progression

I set up the InDesign document to each page being A6 in size, with 12 pages (including the front and back covers). I selected facing pages to ensure it came out like a booklet when printing and I planned to print as a double page spread being A5 sized going across an A4 sheet, leaving space for bleed when trimming. 

Firstly, the contents page made use of a 4x3 grid, with the first horizontal 1/3 housing the 4 separate headings, rotated anti-clockwise 90 degrees. As said before, this layout for me looks most aesthetically pleasing and also makes it more interactive having to flip the page. It left the last 2/3 for a pattern background and the title of the page itself...

The first proper double page spread was the introductory page to figure and ground using a 3x3 grid on both sides of the spread. It helped me to position the furthest, most narrow pattern far right regularly whilst still having the left text box central and the right one appearing balanced...

The middle spread focusing on the active white space makes use of a 3x4 grid both sides again. This time I needed the more refined grid reference across the horizontal to align the left text box to the centre, but also for the right page aswell...

The last full double page spread is split into 3 horizontal sections for each type of figure-ground relationship. A 3x3 grid helped me split it up accurately, with the imagery filling the top 2/3 spaces and then leaving the bottom third for text...

The last page, showed examples and I had designed it in a way which did not require a length ways grid as the image reel would overlap in each column...

Now I'm going to start adding the content into the grid and check for irregularities..