Type and Grids n stuff.

workshop with lorenzo.
we were asked to bring along with us 2 magazine articles, a high rate magazine and a low rate one, each covering similar stories.
these were the articles i took along.

highrate

lowrate

i then compared the difference.

word count
cheap - 76

expensive - 180

quick statement about each article

cheap - tips on whats hot in the festival season, what to wear and not to wear.

expensive - similar magazine, showing top tips on whats hot in fashion through august.

5 differences between the 2

1. the expensive magazine uses more formal looking typefaces, serifs, giving it a more upperclass appearance, more elegant.

2. the cheaper magazine is very colourful very eyecatching wheras the expensive one uses limited, grey scaled colours.

3. the cheap magazine uses dodgy illustrative title making it look cheap and tacky

4. the high-rate magazine is allot more structured and laid out nice making it look safisticated whereas the low-rate magazine looks as if it has just been thrown together.

5. the cheap magazine uses unnecessarily large images, possibly just to fill the page.

6. expensive magazine uses allot of white space giving it a more professional, formal look.

i then redesigned the layout of the magazines using a grid, this is the grid i used for each one.