Type and grid

Construction

Before you can apply a grid you must understand the requirement of the grid in order to produce the work 
before drawing your sketches consider the number of columns needed 
for example one column only for text and images gives little freedom of layout
restricts wether you make illustrations small medium or large.

thee columns allows the opportunity to arrange accommodating text and illustrations in numerous sizes, you could also subdivide the three column grid into a 6 column arrangement.
disadvantages of 6 column systems are 
lines of text will be narrow
small typefaces will have to be used 
but this solely rests in the function which is to be performed. 

For figures, graphs and trend line publications use 4 column grids, they can be divided into 8, 16 and 32. 

The width of a colunm dictates the size of the typeface. the rule is the narrower the colunm the smaller the typeface 

Make a variety of thumbnails of designs /layouts

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• Do not just rely on one set of thumbnails 
• Enlarge an small selection of thumbnails by 1.1
• Compare them and select and repeat until you are confident with the design

Apply type to the columns 

the first line must fit flush to the top limit of the column grid

The last line ,just fit on the bottom limit

TASK 

produce a folding booklet which is minimum 5 pages and maximum 16 pages, use content from current projects, use a grid and change it throughout the booklet.