Reading

The New Typography - Jan Tschichold

I enjoyed this book, although it was rather a dry read.  His ideas are very prescriptive - every design should be done on specified paper sizes, only with certain fonts and with images that comply to his strict rules.  Since writing this book in 1928, Tschichold changed his mind about many of his design rules, but it is a fascinating read and has some ideas for layouts that I want to try out.

In this layout I love the use of horizontal and vertical rules which frame the page and the layout of the text.



The use of colours overlaying the image really focuses the eye on the grid layout.