Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts

56 Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts

HOW magazine is one of a handful of graphic design

trade magazines still in print. Above all the normal chal-

lenges of designing a reader-friendly magazine is that the

audience comprises designers—a persnickety crowd that

will complain to the editor if there’s a bad rag or the

leading is too tight. A good grid system is paramount

for this crowd to keep cohesion between articles, while

displaying great graphic design projects.

“It is of utmost importance in publication design to

make the content as easy to absorb as possible, while

still remaining interesting,” explains Bridgid McCarr ...