Assignment: Take a magazine, newspaper or book that includes images and text. Lay tracing paper over the top of three spreads (both left-hand and right-hand pages). Using a pencil and ruler, carefully trace the grid underlying the page layouts. Remember to remove specific text elements or images, and to only draw the grid lines. Note column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and to the left and right of the main body of text. Is your document based on a two-column, three-column, or another type of grid? Which elements stay the same on each page, and which change?
I decided to use an interior magazine and see how the layout and grids were used in the design. Down below you can see the magazine and the three spreads I used to trace my grids. I used both left and right pages in the magazine to see if that brought some difference.
Using tracing paper, I layed it over the different pages and started tracing out the layout. The design layouts definetly had a similar grid. All the pages used a three collum grid with different slight variations. As you can see the grids have the same layout that creates a grid for the text, but leaves freedom and creativity when placing images and different icons. There were also slight variations on the measurements and the small grids along the sides where headers and negative space would be.
My Reflective Journal 