The inside pages of this book were all very nicely laid out in my opinion, and the main reason behind this is because of the grid system the text was used in. There is very little variation in the type on the pages, and because of this the pretty images are made even more stand-out, I also think this is helped by the fact that the images don't stick to the grid system rigidly, the slight overlapping of columns gives them a type of importance. The text itself is attractive in how it's laid out within the grid system and how the ends and beginnings of some lines are shaped to fit the fades of the images.
I then analysed some of the double page spreads in the book so to gain some idea of how I should lay out my pages. Black boxes indicate text, red indicates an image and it's caption
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| This layout is extremely balanced both in terms of the image:text ratio and the balancing of images on either side of the spread. It's helped by the fact that the row of photo's on either page are aligned with one another to make it seem like a continuous flow of image. Because of the busy looking nature of the spread, it seems important that the columns of text are quite wide to allow some room for variation due to images intruding into the columns, hence why there are only 2 columns across the majority of the spread. |
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| My Breakdown of the Layout |
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| This spread is more balanced in terms of colour, each side has a bluey image and a green image that balance each other out. This page is a clearer example of the use of two columns per page, and it also shows how using colour in a surrounding box can separate on section of the page from the rest. |
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| My Breakdown of the Layout |
The second book I looked at wasn't quite so impressive, but I think this might be because it had substantially less colour in it. But I also analysed the layout of some of the double page spreads in this book.
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