
48 Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts
UPPERCASE is a magazine for the creative and curious
that covers design, illustration, typography, and
craft. The content, which is mostly reader-submitted, is
as eclectic and diverse in look, feel, and execution as
the topics the magazine covers. To be flexible enough to
accommodate this diversity, and to be rigid enough
to make this diverse content feel unified, Janine
Vangool—designer, publisher, and editor—employs a
highly divided multicolumn grid combined with
some general rules about the number of columns that
are combined to create the various text areas.
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