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Alchemy of layoutby J. Abbott Miller from Eye Magazine.
Composition dominates painting, photography, and cinematography as a primary means of structuring meaning. In graphic design, composition is often referred to as 'layout', but when it comes under scrutiny, it is typically in the form of analysing particular approaches to the grid. In texts on magazine and book design the grid is portrayed as an abstract structuring device, a tool capable of serving any number of potential contents. The grid is rarely invested with its own content, or granted a signifying function. Ultimately this is true to the spirit of the grid: it does not want to be particularised, it does not expect to be part of the signifying dimension. It is supposed to be the humble servant, invisible to the content that it serves.
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