Graphic Design by Ellen Lupton

Author:Ellen Lupton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

What’s Wrong with this Picture? The function of a table of contents is to list the elements of a book and help readers locate them. In the table of contents shown here, the page numbers are stretched across the page from the chapter titles, and the word “Chapter” has been repeated twenty-four times. Manners for the Millions, 1932.

Lost in Paris In this table of contents for a travel guide, the designer has used a muddled mix of centered, justified, and flush-left alignments. The desire to create an overall justified setting dominates the logic of the page—hence the long first lines and rows of dots at the top level of information. The three titling lines at the head of the page are centered (a traditional solution), but the result is awkward in relation to the irregular mass of subheads, which weight the page to the left. The whole affair is further confused by the elaborate system of indents, numerals, and letters used to outline the book’s subsections. Blue Guide to Paris, 1957.

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