OUGD406 - Studio Brief 03 - GRADE 2 Layout Inspiration

Initial research into layout ideas looked at existing printed materials, such as newspapers and exhibition catalogues. For instance, one of these was the Leeds Mercury newspaper, which was found to be the first known mass-produced printed material in Leeds. This newspaper therefore had links to both print and public spaces, which could be transferred into our own designs for the layout of the exhibition catalogue. The layout of this newspaper was fairly chaotic with large bodies of text arranged within a column grided layout.

Another idea was to consider the traditional printing methods being used to produce prints for the exhibition itself. This led on to look at the layout of a screen when prepping to print a design. It was decided that the posters would be representational of this screen-printing process in providing a hierarchy of information. When printing, you normally start with a line of ink at the top of the screen which is then pushed through the middle to produce the print, and then ends with a smaller line of ink at the bottom of the screen. The posters would therefore feature an image within the middle, representational of the printed design which would be accompanied by a larger body of text at the top and a slightly smaller body of information at the bottom.