Layouts and Grids Study Topic 1
Week 1 in our theory class has been about studying grids and layout. We were given a task to arrange text in a 4x4 grid layout and now we are assigned to study layouts and grids found on printed material around us. I have chosen to study layout and grid designs in a comic book, a food brochure and a magazine. The first printed media I will be looking at is a comic book. Comic books have come a long way from comic strips in newspapers to graphic novels. The art style and grid layout have changed since then. From what I have found by studying the comic book below is the art style is part of the "Ageless Age", or the present time, of comic books. It is the age where "Comics have expanded into something without shape or borders" were "advanced technology ... has created an unstoppable juggernaut of adaptations" (Jamahl Johnson, The amazing stylistic history of comic books , 2017). Now comic books have the same structure and grids like the previous ages o...