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GRIDS

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During my years as a literary magazine editor, I was more concerned with the writing than anything else. In my mind, a beautifully curated issue rested solely on the quality of fiction, nonfiction and poetry and how each piece worked by itself and with the others in an issue. This concern, quarterly, for ten years, was the written word. I doubt I ever once thought of layout. I could put two columns of text on page after page as a delivery system for the words we were offering. Columns are one thing, and with text alone, good on you. No matter how boring it is to look at.

Adding images in conjunction with text things become much more interesting. It did not take long for me to see the grids that were emerging from the content on each page. Thinking solely about a grid in any given layout changes the organization: things go from static to dynamic. Each page went from two columns of text solely to two columns of text interrupted with pullout quotes, images and drop caps.

I see page layouts, rack brochures, flyers, ads, posters all on a grid. I like to think in terms with modular grids as I’m often considering a page layout, but the golden ration grid, as seen on my “Grids” poster I find alluring.

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