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the pages.
A porUolio a udit form, with a reminder of the possible elements for a portfolio.
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tomary to decide upon a standard "measure"
or width for the material. Text and images
may run across the entire width of the page.
Eight ways of aranging columns of text or the page may be divided into two, three,
on horizontal and vertical rormats. or more columns. The grid should take into
consideration the character of the images:
some demand large-scale reproduction: oth-
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Eight ways of arranging heads
may need to make a series of sketches, first
perhaps in the f01m of roughs on smaller-size
sheets, working up to a full-size "dummy" on
tracing paper. TI1is is a process of trial and error
and constant adjustment to solve conceptual
on horizontal and vertical formats.
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out the pages. Remember that the grid of a
well-organized page should be essentially
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invisible: it should be a guide. not a strait-
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It is during lhi.s development that the dilfi-
cult-to-define qualities of style and vision
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en! rehearsal studies of tllis kind. Working
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IEaiDIIb=J with full-scale tracing paper allows you to test
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page and see the effects of juxtaposition and
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five varied portfolios demonstrate consistent
designs with different types or images fitted
into a grid structure. Arthur Hanlon's bas a
format and a formal two-column
A simple but caretuUy constructed two-column
vcrt.ical structure (this page). The vertical
layout.
Arthur llanlou, The C<ttholic University of column on the left side of the page is nai-
America, Washington, DC. 11 x 8 112 rower than the column on Ihe right side of
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In this portlolio. submllled ln appUcation to a graduate program. the subtle grid is skiillully
interrupted wllh to create a memorable se<Juence of Uvely graphic statemems.
Carlos Brun. University of Mlarnl. Coral Gables. FL. 8 \12" x 11"