Learning Activity – Basic Principles of Layout

1. Take a magazine, newspaper or book that includes images and text. Lay tracing paper over the top of three spreads (both left-hand and right-hand pages). Using a pencil and ruler, carefully trace the grid underlying the page layouts. Remember to remove specific text elements or images, and to only draw the grid lines. Note column widths and margin sizes at the top, bottom, and to the left and right of the main body of text. Is your document based on a two-column, three-column, or another type of grid? Which elements stay the same on each page, and which change?
2. Publish your findings to your WordPress blog and provide photos or scans of your exercise.

I could see similarities between the grid in the different pages. Usually the way the pictures and the text are aligned. Another section was the top section which was almost on all pages.