We then tried to identify grid systems in magazines in newspapers that we'd brought in. I found that in the magazine, the system was column based, and didn't really have any sort of repeating pattern in terms of their rows, although I did notice some rows that had a slight look of the golden ratio about them, which I think is odd given the columns are of equal width.
I notice in this spread however, that the page was very roughly split into 3, or arguably 6 rows, but this wasn't in the same sort of neatness that the Muller-Brockmann grid would've resulted in, which leads me to suggest that this was more of a coincidence than anything else.
In the newspaper, I found a seemingly much more complicated grid system, as the two examples below show. Both pages use a 4 column spread for text, however the on on the left seems to use a 3 column system for images, whereas the one on the right uses a 5 column system for images. This suggests that either the newspaper weren't using a grid at all for images and just putting them where they wanted, or they were using a 60 column system, which is ridiculous. I don't approve of this. Again, on the left spread there is something that's slightly reminiscent of the golden ratio.
There was a page which had a pretty interesting system of rows. The layout of the text at different heights within 3 columns automatically creates rows visually. When further investigated, when you consider either the two columns on the left, or the two columns on the right, the rows where either column doesn't have text are the same width. This leaves you with a pattern where the first 3 rows have different heights, and then the pattern is repeated.
This session has been interesting because it's given me an idea of how using grids and canons can be used in various situations without becoming repetitive, predictable or lazy. It's also given me a few ideas of how to merge different grids together.
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