GDS-172 Spring 2018

Book Cover: Some Trick, by Helen DeWitt I ran across this image in the May 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine. It was on page 116 Under the VLIFE section. The thing that caught my attention was the bold approach of using the circles over an old looking painting of a rabbit with the placement of a predatory animal's eyes. The contrast of themes adds interest to the potential of the content. The font looks like Helvetica. The size of each circle establishes a hierarchy of the importance of the information. This book will not be published until May 28, 2018, but I want to check it out.  

Book Cover: Penguin Random House Publishing I like the random composition of this book cover. The decorative type is interesting and reminds me of arranged cut paper. The "r" of the sans-serif type looks like Helvetica, but the "o's" do not look like Helvetica. I was drawn to this design because it looks interesting and is almost hard to read, which made me want to look at it closer.

Reader's Digest , April 2018, Pgs. 34-35, by Marissa Laliberte, Photograpy by Matthey Cohen This is a sample of a series of spreads in Reader's Digest . I was drawn to this layout because it draws attention by being organized and concise. The text is sans-serif, except for the title which is in a serif font. The sentence that summarizes each paragraph is in bold, which adds to the ease of gaining information from the article. The green text helps to provide a visual cue of division between topics and repeats the color of the decorative element at the top of the page. I also noticed that the folio is presented with bars separating the page number, issue and web address on the left side and is in the reverse order on the right side.