The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

COMM 207 -- grids -- Thursday's assignment for class

The good news is that I've looked over Mark Boulton's five-page explanation of grid design, and you'll really, really like it. The bad news is I decided it's worth going through in class. You can get the same effect(s) by using software packages and templates, but I think it'll help you think through design problems before you even hit the power switch on your computer.

To use one of today's buzzwords, it's platform independent. Some of it, in fact, goes back to a day when a platform didn't mean Windows or Macintosh -- it was more like a flat slab of stone you erected Doric columns on top of.

Two basic links. The introduction to Grid-Based Design 101 that we looked at in class Tuesday.

The second, which we started reading for today and will finish over the weekend, is Mark Boulton's five-part series on grid design.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.