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Sunday 8 January 2012

Reid Miles

Reid Miles 

An American Graphic designer, Reid miles was the cover designer of the Blue Note Records Book. 
I have recently looked at the book "The Cover Art Of Blue Note Records" that has lots of inspiring pages of album layouts that he was going to produce.

This image for example has the background photograph as blue, linking this with the image. The whole layout of text is arranged in a unusual flow and it completely works. A strong colour of green of the name that needs to be bold; a strange place to arrange it but it really works with this concept piece. 

The whole theme is around the jazz, as this is Blue Train he needed something to flow with it; in the photograph the man looks lost maybe? Blue suggests a sad feeling and also with the colour blue its grabs the viewers attention before reading what it is. Relating towards the green text layout, the name is printed in lower case. Maybe it was chosen in lower case as it has more of a flow than with the formal approach ; it could be to do with a cool aspect as its jazz it can be unpredictable.  
                                     

Typographic Grid

Typographic Grid

"A typographic grid is a two-dimensional structure made up of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axes used to structure content. The grid serves as an armature on which a designer can organize text and images in a rational, easy to absorb manner." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_(page_layout)

About The A Page 
Headings , Sub headlines, Columns, Captions, Spine, Margin , Gutter, Pull Quotes , Dates , Type Of Font , Bold, Size , Alligment , Drop-Caps.



I have looked at magazines such as Advanced Photoshop , Grafik, Creative Review, The Observer and ImagineFX. I have copied out the Grid references from each of these magazines and newspapers, and they all have a different type of grid layout. I have used coloured pencils and markers to outline the different context of how the page is laid out. 
In "The Observer" newspaper there are lots of different page layouts. There are lots of page gutters, Pull Quotes, Bold Type and picture gaps. 
In "Grafik" as this is a slick graphics magazine the pages are laid out as fairly similar on each page. This also shows more images and less text on some of the pages.