Project Four :: Spread Compositions, by hand.

Please take all of your research, text and collected materials and design 5 different 2-page spreads about your element. The page format is 7" x 8" making the "spread" 14" x 8". Print out all of your elements in various sizes to use for cutting and pasting. Start out by making thumbnail sketches of different layouts, then recreate your best sketches, full-size, by-hand.

The required content is as follows:

• monogram
• photo/illustration
• title
• element name and number
• 2 text paragraphs
  
• properties list

Here's a nice image of the format:










Laying out a grid will help you organize your elements and find convenient places to align things. It can be as fine or as coarse as you want (meaning the size of the basic grid unit). The one below is 1/2". Draw out your grid in fine pencil or build it in Illustrator and print it out. If you use Illustrator, make all of your lines .25 pt and make them 50% gray so they don't get in the way of the layouts. Mine are also dashed, which you can find in the "Stroke" menu in Illustrator.










Additional Considerations
Set your titles, text, list and element name and number in the same typeface AND weight. Only alter size, tracking and leading for this round. Try a number of different sizes for your title text. Set the title in upper and lowercase, do not set it all caps.


Make copies of your 5 layouts and bring both paste-up and copies to class Wed/Fri.