Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara

Author:Timothy Samara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Compound Grid / Hierarchic+Rotated-Column

As its title, In Dialogue, suggests, this publication focuses on discussions and interviews as a vehicle for understanding the academic environment it advances. Initially, the grid use appears straightforward: a hierarchic, wide outer column and a narrow inner column.

___ And then—images appear to cross between the two columns; text and images both appear to scroll off the tops and bottoms of pages; and text starts to leave the column boundaries altogether. Then, in a secondary section, all of the content rotates 90°.

___ In the first section, the hierarchic grid in place is being cheated slightly. Even though, for the most part, text occupies the wide column and images or captions occupy the narrow one, the designers feel free to shift material around in order to impart a casual, conversational tone to the layouts. The notion of time, as it relates to the interplay of speakers, is also expressed by elements traveling from one spread to another.

___ This quality becomes more pronounced in the second section noted, when a new structure is introduced: a three-column grid, set to run sideways, and occupying the same margins as the hierarchic grid. The change signals a change in the content’s focus and plays up the movement of text and images across boundaries, whether those of each other or the pages.

DESIGN

Level Design Group

New York, NY | USA

In Dialogue, a publication promoting the MFA Design program at Pratt Institute

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