Research- Layout Design/ Coverage

 Layout Design/ Coverage

While looking for inspiration to how I wanted my magazine to look like, I realized a reoccurrence with the layouts, they are quite similar to yearbook or newspaper layouts. There is usually a main or dominant picture or cluster of pictures to show thats the "most important" on the spread. This is followed by text to describe the picture or usually something related to it. There seems to be a lot of big and bold headlines to draw the readers attention to what the text is about or what the picture describes. I am heavily comparing this to a yearbook spread, as it seems to have modules similar to those found in a yearbook. These modules could realistically cover anything, but this one for example cover a dog related game plan in the time span of twenty minutes. There is an even balance of photos and text to accompany it, creating balance on the spread. Overall this spread is well spaced, has good coverage, and an adequate amount of text, filling out the page well. 

This is another example of a spread that I found. This spread has photos but seems to mainly focus on text. It seems informational. It is still well spaced and the text is even text wrapped around the dogs legs with more than enough space in between. There are page number at the bottom and the top seems to be labeled with what this spread is going to cover, in this case nutrition. The headline is in all caps and overlays the picture of the dog to bring emphasis. I also notice that they keep the gutter clear to make sure when it printed its not hard to read. This specific spread only has two pictures, but it still works because all of the text accompanies said photos. The text on the left page is right aligned and the text on the right page is left aligned. The picture of the dog also faces the gutter, following a "rule". Overall these layout showed me what I should aim towards when creating my own lay out, hoe many pictures, text placement, folio.