From the course: Magazine Design Start to Finish: The Inside Pages
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Margins
From the course: Magazine Design Start to Finish: The Inside Pages
Margins
- A magazine page is a busy place; different writers, topics, data points, emotion, nuance, it's fluid, lots of last minute changes. A lot of moving parts to bring together, so as the designer, what I'm looking for is flexibility with consistency. If your pages all look alike, you rob stories of their individuality and their voice and their nuance, and it's boring, but if they're all different, there's no coherency to the whole. So, to hold everything together, we need a structure. That's a grid; it's like a scaffolding. The thing to remember, I think, is that your grid is a guide, it's not a rule. Here are the basics: Blank page, margins. How wide should the margins be? Narrow margins are going to create a page that is dense, demanding, packed full like full blast. I think a good example of a well-designed and narrow margin is Milk Street magazine. Conversely, very wide margins, like two inches, are going to feel light and airy. A good example of that is Lagom magazine. You have to…
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