I think this is a good basis because it allows some freedom to play around with the positioning of the photos and text that I plan to put in. I have been looking a number of similar double page spreads specifically on animals, my immediate response was to go and look at some national geographic magazines because I feel these really embody good layout and content design. The magazine is renowned for its photography and so i've tried to get some images from their issues.
These aren't the most inventive layout designs but it caters for the target audience which is something that I need to take into consideration for the brief.
I think this layout has a better design in terms of inventiveness I like the use of the large image at the top left hand side of the page and the way the text wraps around it in certain places. I think my layout needs to reflect the animal that I have been given which is a hippo, so something like this layout would work well with an over size image on the page. Hippos are large animals so the heading for the page should reflect this.
My initial design for my layout was something I was relatively happy with but I dont think it reflects the Hippopotamus well enough. The design is quite minimal and not particularly inventive in terms of the way I have used the type.
After I printed this out I cut out all the elements of it and started to play around with them manually, exploring styles of David Carson I spoke about in my previous blog post on grids and layouts.
These layouts were just being used from he original I made but I think I got some more interesting results from just playing round by hand, I drew up a few layouts on paper, some I kept in a quite standard format but then I started to experiment further and I found the results more fitting to the brief.
I started the draw larger images of hippos in the thumbnails which I think really reflects the size and scale of the Hippopotamus.
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