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Jan Tschichold - Grids

Feedback from Tutor of Publication
After receiving feedback from my tutor, he informed me to use grids within arranging my layout of my publication pages. This will keep my images and text in a consistent manner, thus making it visually professional. To achieve this precise layout, I will research on Jan Tschichold Grid System. This will allow me, to understand this type of matter of using a grid. 

 Jan Tschichold

 Jan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (2 April 1902 Leipzig, Germany – 11 August 1974 Locarno, Switzerland).

Tschichold's Grid System

 Fibonacci & Golden Ratio

Fibonacci sequence ratio 8:13 links to the Golden section. This sequence is not only evident within design but also nature.


1.62 - Forms the basis of paper sizes and its principles can be used as a means of achieving balanced designs .

Many ancient cultures from Egyptians to the Greeks used this thinking to gain beautiful designed proportions.

8.13 - *Fibonacci sequence ration 8:13 links to the Golden section.

The human face follows the ratio and we find people whose faces are truer to the ratio and more attractive?!

Classic Renaissance masterpieces, architecture from antiquity, and even human body parts are proportioned based on the ratio down to the fingers themselves.



Book - Graphic Design& Golden Meaning 







Canons - Principles of page layout design used to measure and describe proportions, margins and print area. 

Van de Graaf


Tschhichold 
Golden Canon 


Tschichold
Octavo 




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