From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
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Using images as compositional guides
From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
Using images as compositional guides
- I once was interviewed for a podcast program by an interviewer who never listened to my answers. Rather than adjusting and responding to me, he had a set of questions that he was going to ask in order regardless of my response. Now, what, you may be thinking, does that have to do with layout? In the same way that words and images need to react to each other with meaning, they should do the same with composition. When we look at a composition, we see this, a grouping of headline, text, and a rectangle. However, the reality is this. The rectangle is not a flat shape, but an image with content and form, and these forms contain the lines, volumes of color, scale, and important content. I can ignore this and treat the layout as if it were just type in boxes. It makes a polite and sensible layout that works and is legible. But if I let the form of the content, of the images, inform my layout decisions, I create a…
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