Organising Form and Content Task

Organizing Form and Content

Design Problem 1

Working in Illustrator, InDesign, or another page layout program, draw nine squares on a page.

2. Divide each square into nine more squares.

3. Fill in the nine square with color to create different compositions within the same structure. Use color to suggest overlapping and intersecting forms.

4. Repeat the exercise, using the nine–square grids to layout boxes representing text and image. Imagine each gridded box as a page in a publication. Create variation from page to page.

Exercise 1: I designed my colour patterns by taking inspiration from the latest trends in magazines and adapting these to the 9 square pace.

Exercise 2: I designed my picture and text compositions in a variation of styles, some heavily text based and some heavily picture based. The dark squares indicate pictures, the light grey squares indicate text and the white squares indicate blank space.

As the task progressed I found it easier to create and repeat the squares and add colour to each one. This has helped my understanding of creating grids and composition and will help in my future campaign project.