A4. Design System

For this coming few weeks, we will be designing to promote a hypothetical one-day symposium held at NYU titled “Invisible Designs”, which brings designers, design historians, and other scholars together to talk about the contributions and achievements of graphic designers and typographers of color over the 20th and 21st centuries.

Final deliverables will be —

• A tabloid-size poster for the symposium;
• Two custom-size spreads (an introductory spread and following feature spread of an short article\essay reprinted for a 36-page booklet being given out with the symposium;
• A high-fidelity layout for the landing page of the symposium website.

March 10th. Assignment brief given. Students expected to lock down content + work on coming up with initial concepts for all the content (the ‘big idea’), and sketches for all the deliverables over the week.

title style I designed

I didn’t choose any images but the format may seem boring this way.

sketches for the article spread layout

will this still be considered as using the same grid system? (intro and end takes two columns) if there’s one pic, can I add a vertical guide line at around 1/3?

sketch for the website page — I do have a question — is there an overlap between the navigating system and footer with links? details of the venue feels like could be in the “about” page

Trying different fonts — Bodoni, Didot; not sure if the title should be all capitalized and figuring out which way looks better.