I got my pages printed and we all congregated round a table. It was a really helpful and constructive little session which helped me get some clearer ideas about my layout from a more type driven mindset, which was really useful.
Pre crit; A5 side, 6pt baskerville oldface italic and regular, with i think its 32pt bold for the header. No consideration for gutters or leading at this point.
My new considerations after the mini crit are;
- Gutter should be no more than about 5 point
- All layout can be moved to the right of the page to allow for a spine
- I need to check for widows!
- The centrally aligned header works alot better than the left align because of the tone of voice, looks less like a journal and more of a novel which is good.
- I dont really want to be exceeding 10 words per line
- Can I condense my content?
- Move up the typeface size by about a half.
- Develop a modular Grid for layout because this will help me attain an even distribution of objects on a page and allow for imagery.
- My columns need to be wider, or leave less of a gutter.
Realy good quick fire crit, as I say I'm pretty clear on layout when it comes to it now. I do still need to produce about 12 illustrations by the end of the week before I can really think about layout. But the rate at which im doing the illustrations at the moment is pretty good, I'm getting two done a day, and I think I could get that up to three because some of the illustrations will be more straight forward than others.
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