Journal 9

This week I finished eight articles lay out design. Last week, my supervisors asked me to redesign some pages layout from each section, and see how they look while combine in one magazine. I decided to pick one article from each section that I thought it had lots of improvement in its design. In addition, we had a conversation about whether using three columns grid or two columns grid in a small size magazine. My supervisor concerted about audiences might hard to read the words in three columns layout, however in my point of view, there are more capability and spaces to design the layout in three columns grids. At the results, my supervisor received my suggestion, and wanted to hear more professional opinions, such as other designers and my professors. I told Professor Mason about this conversation, and wanted to get more professional advisement. He agreed my idea which three columns also could work in small size magazine. After Professor Mason looked at my design, he also gives me some suggestions while during page layout. While designing a lot of text, do not just leave the text sit there, people got tired and boring while they read. It is better to edit some design to make audiences’ eyes jump, such as editing a pull quote. I translated the opinions and suggestion back to my supervisors, he was glad to hear these, and he will bring this topic to the next meeting with other magazine’s partners.