InDesign - puts everything together. used for magazines, books, layouts
Create folder on desktop, open up InDesign, File, New, put in width, (intent) print, number of pages (6), Margins (default come back later to change it), Bleed and Slug. Put Columns. Save as. save to desktop. Name it.  Margins and Columns. Navigate per page.

white arrow selection tool = move and adjust picture within selection box.
move box to top of the page = black arrow

Image should be high-res
Apply master pages to...
Put pictures into folder, so they can link to the project, export as PDF.
Character Style Options
select all, insert special characters --> markers -->current page numbers


Cover and Table Content
Cover
- Title
- Issue number
- Feature story cover line and support imagery

Table of Contents
- Sections and Numbers
    - Example : Features, News, Lifestyles, Special Features
- Use hierarchy to stress key articles
- Have visuals from hypothetical articles
- You maybe break the grid here

Project Timeline

Week 9 : Work on Page spreads, color prints due start to next week.

Week 10 : Sketch Cover and Table of Contents

Week 11 : Design Development of Cover and Table of Contents

Week 12 : All components of Magazine layout due Mounted on black board.

Bridge two page layout. Three columns and large pictures.

Start of bridge model.

Paper bridge model

Paper bridge model of the bridge tower.

Drawing of bridge tower, so I could get estimated size to make the wooden model.

Clay bridge tower

Ideas for Model Bridge Sculpture

I'm going to make a model bridge of the Ben Franklin Bridge with wood. Then take pictures of it to use in my magazine spread.

More layout sketches

Benjamin Franklin Bridge Article

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/bridge.htm

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Opened in 1926, Philadelphia's Center City Link to New Jersey

Great cities have great bridges. New York has the Brooklyn Bridge; Venice is a city of beautiful pontes crowned by the Bridge of Sighs. Think San Francisco and you think of the Golden Gate. In Philadelphia, our great span is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge started life bearing the prosaic moniker, the Delaware River Port Authority Bridge. After it was finished in 1926 the bridge competed with the energetic ferries that darted across the Delaware, and had done so since William Penn's time. Much like Philadelphia after Benjamin Franklin's arrival in 1724, it took a few years for the populace to get accustomed to the marvel in its midst. It would only be a matter of time before the arcing wonder — then the largest suspension bridge in the world — would supplant those below. In 1956, recognizing the beauty and wonder of the span, it was renamed for Ben Franklin.

The bridge was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the architect who was also in large part responsible for Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Driving over the bridge and passing under its two tall towers connected by tapering cables, puts one in mind of Dorothy entering into Kingdom of Oz — there is a fearful exhilaration. This bridge does not merely span the Delaware — it soars over the river. Painted a resonant blue, at some points the bridge seems to merge with the sky.

By evening, the bridge dances to a different beat. Gone are the restless drumbeats of commuting tires. Whereas the bridge takes on a blue-overalls-go-to-work aspect during the day, the Ben is ready to rumba by night. Thanks to a computer-driven lighting system added for the Bicentennial, the span actually appears to shimmy — for trains passing over the bridge trigger sensors which illuminate each cable in succession. The cables resemble piano keys, and as strong beams of light briefly alight on each cable in a cascading crescendo, the bridge dances rhapsodic.

The Benjamin Franklin springs from the venerable Phialadelphia neighborhood called Olde City. Two historic churches, St. Augustine and St. George's, are nestled at the base of the bridge. St. George's, which dates to 1769 and is the oldest Methodist church in the United States, was originally in the way of where the bridge's engineers intended to place the span. Said engineers were forced into court however, to change their design so as to allow the threatened church 14 feet of breathing room.

St. Augustine's, which dates to 1796, is the oldest Augustinian church in Philadelphia. Among the original subscribers to the church was "saucy" John Barry, a Revolutionary War naval hero and then commodore who also has an elegant bridge named for him down the road in South Jersey. Church membership had dwindled over the years, with many congregants taking a one-way trip over the Ben to the greener vistas of New Jersey. As money became tight, the church could not even afford to maintain the lovely mid-19th-century artwork and frescos painted on its ceiling.

Then in 1992, the church's steeple blew off during a brutal December storm and fell onto the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, closing the span for three days. Miraculously, no one was hurt, but a fifty-foot chasm opened in the church's ceiling and many paintings and murals suffered water damage. In the church's insurance policy, however, the destruction of the steeple and the damaged artwork were considered Acts of God. St. Augustine's used the settlement to repair the steeple and preserve the damaged paintings. Talk about mysterious ways.

Our bridge connects us to Camden, the onetime home to Walt Whitman, RCA's Nipper, and still currently home to Campbell Soup. It's no secret that Camden has fallen on hard times. But there is a chiseled quote from Whitman that circles the top of Camden's City Hall which reads, "I dreamed I saw a city invincible." The quote is wholly appropriate for Camden. This timeworn city is much like a boxer taking a standing eight — dazed but ready to fight again. Preservationists have lovingly repaired the stained-glass Nipper that vandals had desecrated with rocks. An aquarium built on the eastern bank of the Delaware is topped by a dome which at night turns different colors to reflect the weather. Many nights it glows bright red — clear weather ahead.

New Jersey itself feels like a family member to many Philadelphians, a cherished country cousin whom we enjoy visiting. Awaiting us in the Garden State are the things we love and embrace as our own: diners, roadside fruitstands, and best of all, the Jersey shore, where we spend our halcyon sun-drenched summer weekends that seem almost beyond the reach of time.

But return we must, and upon returning home from the shore, tired and sun-happy on Sunday night, it is the Ben Bridge that lets us know we are home. Driving across the blue arc, we see the red-orange blazing neon letters of the PSFS sign, once the largest neon in the world. We see the rest of our beloved skyline, the maligned grandeur that is City Hall with a yellowish, Londonlike pallor emanating from its clock. We see the white Inquirer building and know an Inky awaits us the following morning as it has since the 1830s. It is our familiar, comforting vista that says, "We're home." We are now ready to be tucked in.

Project #3 Sketches

I'm thinking about making my magazine spread based off of a bridge in Philadelphia.

A Grid Notes

A grid
is a pattern of horizontal and vertical axes that intersect at regular intervals.

In typographic design, a grid system is a method of organizing and clarifying text.

A Grid : Text and images organized horizontally and vertically.

Text page : The area on the page in which text occurs.
The text page contains the fields and the gutters that make up the grid.

Margin : The space that distinguishes the text page from the paper around it.

Field : The basic component of any grid.
The height of a field is calculated as a multiple of the text leading. Its width is a multiple of the length of a line of text.
The lower right corner is the weak, a 'passive' corner - things may or may not end there.

On this 9-field grid, there are two horizontal gutters.

The space that separates fields left-to-right.

Folio : The page number.
Folios sit outside the text page, but they relate to the grid vertically or horizontally.

Running head/ foot/ shoulder : In longer documents, a guide for readers to show them where they are in the manuscript.
Like folios, they sit outside the text page, but relate to the grid either vertically or horizontally.

Running head - top of page
Running shoulder - side of page
Running foot - bottom of page

Josef Muller-Brockmann
Armin Hofmann
Hans Neuberg
Richard Lohse
Carlo Vivarelli
Emil Ruder
Willi Kunz

A grid is an organic, integrated response to content.
It expresses both the architecture (structure) and the music (rhythm and voicing) of the page.

Margins : at first, only set up margins for top, left.
Art : testing various sized of art.
Type : Accommodating text.
( 6 horizontal fields become 12 horizontal fields. Vertical gutters are 1.5 ems (12.75 pts.)

Combing text and image
Organic forms and silhouettes - all non-rectilineal shapes - are not bound by the vertical and horizontal axes.
Cross-alignment : leading for captions is based upon some multiple of leading for text to guarantee cross-alignment.

4 lines of captions = 3 lines of text

Different classes of information occupy different fields, express different axes. Layout becomes meaning. Hierarchy becomes physical.

1. Determine story for double page spread.
2. Choose publication dimensions
-Large format : 10 x 12
-Standard Size : 8 x 10.5 (extra spread)
-Digest Size : 5.5 x 8.25 (extra spread)
3. Develop grid system 3,4,5 or 6 colums
4. Integrate images and headlines into grid sketches.

Philly Graphic Design Photos