There was a tutorial on Experimental Layout in Computer Arts Projects, issue 66. These are layouts from the tutorial which is available in zip format from them.

Random Tips

• “Rather than just putting your headline on top of a picture, why not combine the two by putting an image into the headline copy. This technique will obviously work better with bolder type; narrower serif faces would not show enough of the image to create the desired effect.”
• “Again, when it comes to headlines there’s no need to stick with tradition. Running a headline vertically between the columns of body copy creates a unique-looking page, and the bold type and short headline means that again it’s easily readable.”
• “A different approach with headlines would be to use an enlarged pull-quote or into to give a feel for the feature, rather than just a traditional headline. This is a technique Neville Brody used to great effect in The Face in the 1980s.”

Layouts I Loved

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Creating the 9rules Logo by Whitespace. With images for some of the stages. I like the phrase “Working the metaphor” as a title for one of the sections. Very nicely done and informative.

My second week at doing Illustration Friday! This is quite fun.

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Project
Come up with an illustration for “Travel” for Illustration Friday .

Mechanics
Illustrator 9.0 with an amazingly wonderful recent gift — brand spanking new Wacom Intuos3 9×12 tablet! Raar! Anyway… wanted to use Illustrator CS’s scribble effect but did this over the weekend so no access to CS at school. (Makes me want to update…)

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Studio Mimesis Arnhem site has tips on various design products like Illustrator and Photoshop. The tutorials have great images and explanations. If only it were in English but the screenshots make it so it really doesn’t matter. And there is such a thing as Babel Fish.