Grid, Griddy // Grids

You have probably opened this blog and seen that the title of this very page is kinda cringe; well it is not as cringe as I make it sound to be, I am just the 'cringe' one. 

Anywho, back to writing this blog. In the previous one, we explained the basics in how to use InDesign to get a better understanding. As the time for that class did run out unfortunately only a few things were managed. Now as accustomed, we did a whole theoretical lesson about just how Grids are implemented in InDesign and why it is used by many people to make a professional looking design.

This is one thing that makes InDesign stand out from all the other Adobe products is the fact that they implement the use of Grids to standardise designs. There are many reason people can give to why grids are useful, but the obvious answer to this is to allow for accuracy making sure everything is aligned well and to maintain consistency with all the pages. This would be able to align images, text, logos, numbers and so much more.

Grids have two different styles that could be utilised depending on the design and theme of an article or content being created. The typical and usual one that is used by creators is called the Symmetrical Grids. Now this is the typical styles you find in Newspapers, Magazines, Books and so much more to create a systematical and organised style. Whereas there is another layout that is used a lot that is not that common but can be effective in its own way; that style is called Asymmetrical Grids. It can be used for all the examples given from the other style but everything in improper and may overlap. Again the style you choose depends on what you are attempting to convey to the audience and who the market is.

Once more, for our practical lesson, we were asked to log on, open Adobe InDesign and open a new document with 3 columns and 10 pages. This was the start of our portfolio, we will be adding items or content to this InDesign file during the duration of these weeks. So the first item we needed to add to fill the first page is a Magazine cover. To find out more about the Magazine made and how it looks like, check out my next blog where is will all be explained.

Week 3 (GRIDS).pdf