Comments About Layout: Todd Nichols

Matt,
They look great, don’t beat yourself up.
I don’t mind the research images along the bottom, I do however want to see some space between the pictures, this will aid in faster image recognition. “Eye ease” all pictures for that matter, they make a big glob when they all are touching edge to edge.
I would also like to see the smaller Image Captions combined instead of one at the top and one at the bottom, or if they were smaller.

I would also like if the round topped buildings shown at the bottom aligned with something, on the first page they seem to align with the title copy, on the following pages, perhaps they could be (all) reduced in width to align with the photo stack above. The same goes for the research photos along the bottoms of the right, I would like to see them stop at the left edge of the photo above,

For what it’s worth,..
My 2 cents,....

Todd Nichols, SEGD, LEED® AP
Senior Graphic Designer
Karlsberger


Todd,

Thanks for the comments!

Here is some response, you can tell me I’m wrong.

The research images are supposed to be more of a canvas or collage not intended to study but give texture to the content for each area of study: shape, environment, stacking, comradery, therapy, scale… there would be a different set of images. VERY similar to my prez:
MDA Final Presentation.pptx

I wanted them to run into the binding as to minimize the importance and treat them more as interest than content. The other image touching edge to edge is really a collage. The rest are seperated.

I will have to study the all-in-one caption. I was following some militar examples of manuals and isolating information to be succinct and easily recognizable.

I am trying to creat this margin of resource at the bottom. On the left page is project vignettes and the right is photo collage. The left lower corner block is my information (paired with my design) and the right lower corner block is page number (general like photo collage). So left is me, right is military.

I have aligned the bottom photos in a couple layouts with the right hand edge where the captions are right of the images treating that outside margin within the border as an info bar, ex. Page number and captions.

Which layout of information did you like better? Large center gutter with captions? Captions to far outside edge? Image content stack to inside of page toward the biding or outside? Please let me know. Thanks.

Matthew D Anderle
Designer / BIM Implementation Lead
Karlsberger


Matt,
Your descriptions make sense how the Research pics form a band this works, but the collage could still have some eye relief incorporated.

I prefer the Smaller gutters with the captions towards the outside, reminds me of National Geographic.
Images on the inside near the binding for sure.
Good Luck!

Todd Nichols, SEGD, LEED® AP
Senior Graphic Designer
Karlsberger