Divest and disclose! Not a single penny for Israel’s war machine! Cut all financial ties with Israel and open the books!

Convene mass assemblies and form committees of struggle on a campus-wide, city-wide, and national level!

For teachers’, campus workers’, students’, and trade union control and management of the universities!

Nationalize the Ivy League and all other private universities! For free, fully funded education and an end to student debt!

For a workers’ boycott of any industry or company that enables Israel’s crimes! Dockworkers in India and Spain and tech workers at Google have shown the way forward!

Down with US imperialism! For a workers’ government! Build a communist party!

Free Gaza! Free Palestine! Worldwide intifada until victory!

I had a lecture on the Anatomy of a Magazine and the Hierarchy of type. This lecture was extremely useful as it allowed me to familiarise certain terminology that is used to describe various different components within a magazine. This is really helpful as I can use this terminology in the future when I am explaining parts of a magazine. This is really insightful for me as I have not created/designed a magazine before, so when I create one for this module I will be more familiar with them.

Another thing learnt from this lecture is the importance of grids. Many magazines/newspapers use grids as they help to create a coherent layout and give a nice structure to the pages. Whilst learning the importance of grids, I also learnt other terminology that can be applied to my annotation such as ‘gutter’.

Aspects which I learnt from the lecture that will definitely make me consider using grids is the fact that they:

Can sometimes speed up the layout and production

Create an overall design cohesion

Create a clear hierarchy of information

Can make pages look fresh and more unique (so not all pages look the same.)

Other aspects of the lecture I noted were:

Strong typographic hierarchy is important

Viewers eye is most likely to be attracted to the largest text first.

The use of colour can either draw attention to or de-emphasize an element. (try to use a limited range of colours as too much can be distracting)

White space and pace are important to consider.

Towards the end of the lecture we were then given a few tasks to complete:

Design a contents page using InDesign (this task is to help us familiarise ourselves and get comfortable with InDesign.)

Looking at two pages DPS (double-page spread) from two different sources, analyse the visual and typographic hierarchy on the page. And then redraw it in our sketchbooks.

Choose the magazine and then create some masthead sketches.