Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Briony Hartley

Today we had a talk from Briony Hartley a book designer working from the Enterprise Pavilion. The talk was very relevant to the current brief and she made some interesting points in terms of design considerations.
That a design must:
  • Grab attention
  • Value for money
  • Be action packed with features
  • The article title must attract attention
  • Use of subheadings to break the text into designable chunks
  • Captions on photographs for people that only skim read
  • Boxes to contain short, related features alongside
  • The use of only two or three colours
  • No more than a maximum of three fonts
  • Use different weights on type for impact and variety
  • Be prepared for change, and make it easy to make changes

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